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the butt is unground ; the third is irregular in shape, it is flat on one side 

 and at the butt : that these celts were found in association is uncertain. 



Wilde 1 describes six stone celts as having been procured from Lough Gur, 

 but he does not state whether they were found together. 



The remaining celts that came from this locality were procured for the 

 collection at different times. 



Two stone celts were discovered, presumably together, when ploughing a 

 field at Ballinacarriga, Co. Limerick ; they were presented to the Academy 

 by Colonel Gloster. Both are rectangular in shape ; the butt of one is square, 

 that of the other is irregular. (Fig. 1, 7 and 8.) 



Co. Longfwd. — Two stone celts, a Hint Blake, and a tanged and barbed 

 arrow-head, all purchased from Mr. Patrick Trapp, of Longford, are stated to 

 have been found together in a field in the fcownland of Soran, parish of Clon- 

 broney, Co. Longford, by Mr. John Sexton. The larger celt shows traces of 

 use at the cutting edge; its butt appears to have been broken off. The 

 cutting edge "t" the other celt also shows traces of use, its sides are ground, 

 and it has the general appearance of being copied from a metal celt. The 

 Hake may haw been used as a knife; l»'lh its edges appear to have been 

 worked : the arrow-head ia of the ordinary tanged and barbed type. 

 (Fig. 1, 1,2, 3, and 4.) 



Co. Meath. — Two polished Btone celts were found at Knockmooney, 

 r'aganstown, near Xavan, Co. Meath, in 1843; they were presented to the 

 Academy by Mr. J. 1!. Taaffe. i>ne is oblong in shape, with a round butt; 

 the othei ngular ; its butt has been broken. 



Co. Monaghan.—'Tfaa polished green-stone celts were discovered with two 

 vessels of baked clay on the property of Captain Stopford, at Lislea, near 

 Clones, Co. Monaghan. The two celts, and one of the vessels, were given f 

 in 18Go\ by Captain Stopford to the late Mr. Robert Day, of Cork. The 

 vessel, a typically Neolithic urn with a round base, has unfortunately got 

 separated from the celts ; it was purchased by the Academy after the sale of 

 the Day collection in 1915. The two colts, as figured and described with the 

 urn in 1004 by the late Mr. George Coffey, m.k.i.a., 5 were similar in appear- 

 ance, and measured some . s ^ inches in length ; their butts approach 

 the pointed, more closely than the squared, type. It is desirable that their 

 present habitat should be ascertained. 



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