358 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Balltbitxion, Cohn-ty Keebt. 



I^have given tlie foregoing account of tlie work done in county 

 Clare, as it carries the record soutliTrards in regular succession wittout 

 going backwards and foi'wards from place to place, I now resume the 

 account of the exploration done by my wife and myself. 



My attention was drawn to Ballybunion by an account given in the 

 Joui-nal of the Eoyal Society of Antiquaries, Ireland, for 1893, vol. in., 

 p. 78. We visited the sandhills there in August, 1899, and found 

 several well marked sites with old surface. On digging over portions 

 of the old surface we obtained broken bones and teeth of deer and ox ; 

 also abundance of shells, chiefly of limpet and periwinkle. On the 

 surface we found many split pebbles, and one large and thin knife-like 

 fiake of quartzite with marks of use on the edge. It is shown half-size 

 with section in fig. 34, ~So. YII. "We got eight well marked hammer- 

 stones, five of which owing to oiu' being ali'eady too heavily laden, we 

 were obliged reluctantly to leave behind us. We found no flint or 

 pottery. 



Tealee axd Brandon Bat, CorNTT Keery. 



My wife and I also examined the sandhills separating these two 

 bays. After a good deal of fruitless search we found a place near the 

 base of the small peninsula where the sand was greatly blown away, 

 exposing a long valley extending from the one bay to the other, in 

 which we found a considerable number of hut-sites. One small mound, 

 possibly the centre of a hut, was about three yards in diameter, and was 

 plentifully strewn with shells of cockle, periwinkle, oyster, and limpet, 

 and close beside this mound there was another of about the same size. 

 On this site I got numerous stones evidently intentionally broken and 

 split to obtain shai-p-edged pieces for knives and scraping tools. A 

 thii'd mound had oyster, limpet, and cockle strewn on the surface, and 

 I found on it a large bone which belonged to a cetaceous animal, and had 

 apparently a shai-p edge ground on it. Four other mounds undoubtedly 

 the centres of huts, were examined from which we obtained hammer- 

 stones, one of which was of white quartz rock. I also show a small 

 boulder from which two or thi'ee bold flakes have been removed, making 

 the remainder into a good cutting implement, with a heavy butt for 

 holding in the hand, and a flne cutting edge at the opposite end which 

 shows marks of use. Two views of this implement are shown on 

 Xo. VII., fig. 31. 



