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was taken early in the last century from an insignificant-looking earthen fort 

 in the neighbourhood, which also Miss Eedington has shown me — and this is 

 evidence that some at least of the very numerous earthworks in the neigh- 

 bourhood are to be assigned to this little-known period, and that the com- 

 munity li\-iag in this part of Co. G^lway at the time was of considerable 

 importance. 



1 have handed over the beads and the fragments of the pin to 

 Mr. Ai'mstrong for the Museum. 



