286 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Among tlie treasures sent up to Dublin on that occasion from Kilkenny 

 was this necklace ; and in an adjoining case, exhibited by this Academy, 

 were a few similar beads, which Mr. Richai'd Hitchcock believed formed 

 part of the original set.^ 



(7). A Stone Mould for a Celt. — This stone mould was found by 

 James Aylward while reclaiming a bog at BaUydagh, in the barony 

 of Iverk. It was found about four feet below the sui'face. The 

 material is a hard grit; there is an excellent drawing of it in the 

 Journal of the Eoyal Society of Antiquities, Ireland, vol. vii., c. s., 

 p. 307. It was a mould for what is called a pocketed, or perhaps as 

 EUacombe suggested, better called a ''socketed" celt. It may be 

 noted that Du JSToyer gives several very ingenious hints about this 

 mould, and especially about the upper portion with the cruciform 

 ridges.2 



(8). Small Stone Box toith Inner Wooden Box. — Dromiskin, in the 

 County of Louth, has an ancient history; it formed part of the 

 territory of Cuchullain ; we find early mention in the Irish Annals 

 of ecclesiastical buildings at this place ; some remains of its 

 Monastery are said to be recognisable in the garden-wall of 

 Dromiskin House. Its Eound Tower is a National Monument ; the 

 ground between the Monastery walls and the Eound Tower was 

 probably once a burial ground. Sometime, apparently in 1862, the 

 then tenant had removed about five feet of rich soil fi'om the surface 

 of the ground, and in doing so had come upon a cist about 6 feet long, 

 2|- feet wide, 1^ feet deep. The remains of a human skeleton were in 

 the grave; the skull, which had lost its face bones, is now on the 

 table, and the stone box, the present object of notice, was found by 

 the side of the skull. This stone box was of a hard close-grained 

 grit, the cover was of green stone rubbed into shape, and fitting 

 closely into the rabbet made to receive it, but it does not slide into its 

 place beneath a dovetail. The timber box was cut from a solid piece 

 of yew wood, and was made to fit tightly into the stone box. The 

 bottom and the lower parts of the sides were broken into small 

 ii'agments. The lid was slid into a dovetail rabbet and was closed 

 with a spring. The cover was lined on the outside by thin leather 

 which concealed the spring fastening and its rivets. Inside the inner 

 b)ox was a single pin of bright yellow bronze. The pin had evidently 



1 Journal, Eoyal Society of Antiquaries, Ireland, vol. ii., c. s., p. 32, and 

 vol. ii., c. s., p. 287. 



2 Loc. cit., p. 380. 



