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the relics is dead more than sixteen years. The inaccuracy 

 of Dr. Robinson's informant as to the time of the discovery 

 appears to be material in this inquiry, as affording an indica- 

 tion of the doubtful reliance to be placed on his memory in 

 other and more interesting portions of the communication made 

 by him. 



" With regard to the place where the discovery was made, 

 I must remark, that it was not, as Dr. Robinson was informed, 

 at Tiovin?,- Heath, nor probably within a mile of it. It is quite 

 true that the antiques were found on part of the extensive 

 townland of Dowris, the situation of the greater part of which 

 has been correctly stated to be on sheet 30 of the Ordnance 

 Maps of the King's County. The relics in question were 

 accidentally dug up by two persons, one of whom, Edward 

 Hennessy, now deceased, was at that time sportsman to Mr. 

 Drought of Whigsborough. The other man is living yet. 

 They were at the time trenching potatoes on that part of 

 Whigsborough known by the name of Derreens, and which 

 lies between Whigsborough paddock wall and the water known 

 by the name of Lough Cowr. 



"I have stated, that a person is yet living who was actually 

 with Hennessy when the antiquities described in part by Dr. 

 Robinson were found. A second person also still lives who was 

 privy to their discovery. He accompanied me recently to the 

 spot. 



" Having thus noticed the time and the actual place of 

 finding the antiquities, 1 must go rather diffusely into a 

 description of the several articles which were then found. 

 Dr. Robinson was much misled in being brought to believe 

 that the bronze vessel, in the possession of the Earl of Rosse, 

 and its contents, were the only things discovered. There was 

 at least a horse-load of gold-coloured bronze antiquities, of a 

 variety of forms, exhumed at the time. Many of them are 

 now in my collection, and I made presents of several of them 

 to other collectors. 



