No. 3, with the brass handle, marked with the initials E. T. 9, was 

 found about a mile above Clonard. I think it likely that it be- 

 longed to some of Lieutenant Tyrrell's corps who defended Clo- 

 nard in 1798 ; or perhaps to the besiegers of Tycroghan Castle, in 

 1641. 



" The key, No. 13, was given to me by Mr. Ledwich of Kil- 

 rathmurry, adjoining Clonard, and was found in some excavations 

 about his farm buildings. 



" One of the iron swords, No. 32, was found in the Little 

 Boyne, near Kinnefad Castle ; and the other, No. 7, beside the rath 

 of Clonard. The remains of a small bucket, presented to the Aca- 

 demy by Dr. Barker sometime since; a brass pot; and some small 

 swords, &c, were found in the same portion of the works, and dis- 

 posed of by the men without my knowledge. 



" The large bronze blade, No. 14, and two others like it; the 

 iron dirk, No. 9, and another like it, in better preservation ; the 

 iron spear, No. 21 ; bronze do., Nos. 22 and 23 ; and the ornament, 

 No. 18, were found, nearly all together, a mile below Stoneyford, 

 on the Boyne River, at which point no ford is described on any of 

 the published maps ; nor is it spoken of by tradition, although it 

 must have been well known, as both bronze and iron weapons were 

 found more plentifully here than at any other place above Trim. 

 Indeed, with the exception of this point and Donore, very few anti- 

 quities have been found along the course of the Boyne works ; at 

 the last-named place no bronzes were discovered. 



"The bone dirk, No. 15, was found a quarter of a mile below 

 Clonard, and with it some stone spear-heads, of about nine inches 

 in length, and half-an-inch in thickness. These were taken away 

 by the men, to be used as hones ; and I could not recover any of 

 them. From all I could learn, I believe they were made of clay- 

 slate ; there were no other weapons got near them ; they were 

 under about four feet of sand, and seven feet below the surface of 

 the land ; and from the existence of the bar at the quarry, or rocky 

 shoal, at Moneymore, a couple of miles down the river, they must 

 have been lost in water ; and it is likely the entire valley was sub- 

 merged at the time, as the quarry commanded a level of four feet 

 over where they were discovered. 



" It will be seen by examining the labels attached to the diffe- 

 rent articles, that very few, comparatively speaking, were obtained 

 from the Deel; and those two, Nos. 29 and 30, present a great con- 



