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" The bronze ring, No. 17, was found lying upon the gravel, 

 with four feet of peat over it. I can give you no idea of the use 

 of it. 



" (Signed), 



" William Frasek. 

 "January 17, 1852." 



[From Mr. Klasen, as to the Crannog at Cloonfinlough, King's 

 County. ] 



" Cloonfinlough, a small lake, the area of which is about 200 

 acres, is situated three miles from the river Blackwater (the main 

 channel of the Derryholmes district), and about two from Clonmac- 

 noise, or the Seven Churches, King's County. By the sinking of 

 the Goulan tributary the water of this lake was lowered about six 

 feet ; and near the south-west end, on Tullabeg site, a small island 

 was laid bare ; it was nearly circular, and about seven yards in 

 diameter. This island had not been visible, even in the dryest 

 seasons, during the recollection of a man of the name of Connor, 

 who has lived adjoining the lake for the last ninety-eight years. 

 On digging up the island, it was found to have been evidently of 

 artificial construction, the natural bottom being very thin bog- 

 stuff, on which long logs of bog-oak and fir had been laid, and on 

 these a layer of stones of different sizes, but generally about the 

 dimension of a man's head ; on the stones was a thick deposit of 

 mud, bog-stuff, and decomposed dung (left by wild fowl), inter- 

 spersed with sticks, &c. Accompanying the whole was a rough 

 sort of stockade, or row of oak piling, all under water ; each pile 

 measured about eight inches in diameter. The centre of the island 

 was about two feet higher than the exterior. On the north side, 

 about two feet from the surface, were discovered a few small flags, 

 placed as a sort of pavement or hearth ; and on the same were about 

 300 bullets, mostly of the size of musket-balls, but varying to that 

 of small pistol-bullets. A quantity of bad castings and broken 

 pieces of lead were also found, showing that the bullets had been 

 cast on the spot, and many of them in bad moulds. Near the centre 

 of the island was found a brass tube, with a small flange at one 

 end ; the whole about two feet long, and originally straight, one- 

 third of an inch in diameter, and supposed to have belonged to a 



