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Mannii^ Bat, CotrNTY Galwat. 



We visited this place while staying at Clifden in August, 1899. I 

 had given it a hasty examination at Easter, 1896, but was anxious to 

 see it again. We found numerous and well-marked sites, but as the 

 rock of this district is very coarse and wfeathers, I should think, quickly, 

 we did not find many things that could be looked on as implements of 

 a characteristic kind. Split pebbles which had probably been used as 

 knives and scrapers were plentiful, and we got a few hammerstones. 

 We did not find any flint or pottery. There was one large sloping 

 space which I found to be 48 paces in length, and 36 in breadth, 

 which was strewn pretty thickly with shells. At the one end the 

 shells were almost all broken dog whelk. These thinned out towards 

 the centre, where they became mixed with the ordinary edible shells, 

 and the remainder of the space contained only shells of the edible 

 kind. I have not as yet obtained any specimens of the broken dog 

 whelk directly from the old surface, but from the number of sites in 

 which it has been found, and in many cases mixed with the edible 

 species, I am inclined to think that the people who used the one kind 

 must have used the other. 



BmsrowEisr, County Galway. 



We returned from the sand-hills on the south side of Mannin Bay 

 by the way we entered them, and drove to the village of Ballyconeely, 

 and then to sandhills opposite Slynehead Lighthouse. This site is 

 known as Bunowen, and is the place visited by the exploring party of 

 the Royal Irish Academy at Easter, 1896. On that occasion I only 

 arrived on the spot at dusk when the others were ready to leave. On 

 our present visit we saw many well-marked sites with abundance of 

 shells of the edible kind lying scattered about, chiefly limpet, peri- 

 winkle, and cockle. We found hammerstones and chopper-like im- 

 plements with dressed circular edges, like those found by me at 

 Roundstone, and figured in the Report of the Committee, consisting 

 of Messrs. Patterson, Praeger, Bigger, and myself, which is published 

 in the Academy's Proceecliyigs^ 3rd Ser., vol. v., p. 433. We did not 

 find any flint or pottery. 



Dogs Bat, Roundstone, County Galway. 



I did not again visit Dogs Bay in 1899, as I had given it a very 

 searching voxaminati on in 1896. I then obtained several veiy interest- 



