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Tiie Secretary read a paper by Thomas L. Cooke, Esq. 

 of Parsonstown, on certain bronze relics found at Dowris, in 

 the King's County, and exhibited to the Academy specimens 

 and drawings of the various articles described. 



" On the 30th of November, 1848, the Rev. Dr. Robin- 

 son read an essay to the Royal Irish Academy, on the sub- 

 ject of certain bronze antiques found in the King's County, 

 and of which a portion is in the possession of that scientific 

 nobleman the Earl of Rosse. 



" In order to correct a few trifling mistakes and inadverten- 

 cies into which he has fallen, I have thought it right to place 

 on record before the Academy some facts and circumstances 

 I happen to be cognizant of, relative to the discovery of the 

 bronze articles which formed the subject matter of Dr. Robin- 

 son's essay. 



" At the time the relics in question were found, I was 

 resident in Parsonstown, distant about five miles from the 

 site of the discovery. Having a desire to preserve the anti- 

 quities of the country, I did not rest until I became possessed 

 of several of the articles found, and I at the moment collected 

 all the information I could procure respecting the place, and 

 other particulars of the finding. What I then and since have 

 learned, I have embodied in the present communication. 



" Dr. Robinson has been inaccurately informed as to the 

 time when the original discovery was made. It is much more 

 than sixteen years since ; and I have reason to believe that 

 it is even nearer to twenty-five than to twenty years ago. 



" Sixteen years have elapsed since the publication in the 

 ' Dublin Penny Journal,' vol. i. p. 376, of a paper of mine, 

 in the first sentence of which 1 mentioned that the things 

 therein enumerated were found (then, 1833), a few years 

 since, near Birr. I cannot now find any entry or memorandum 

 to enable me to fix the precise time. There, however, exists 

 no doubt that it is more than twenty years ago, I suppose 

 it to be about twenty-five years. One of the men that found 



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