Armstrong — Associated Finds of Bronse Celts. 525 



kindly replied (January 25th, 1917) to a query as to the occurrence of tin in 

 Ireland as follows :— " The only other authenticated localities for tinstone 

 in Ireland, besides Croaghan Kinshelagh and the Gold Mines Valley, 

 are (1) a mineral vein in the granite at Dalkey, and (2) at Slieve-na-niiskan, 

 Mourne Mountains, Co. Down. It is said to have Ijeen found also at 

 Kilcrohane (Sheep Head), Co. Cork, and at Lough Leane, Killarney, Co. 

 Kerry. As far as we know the mineral was never found in quantities 

 sufficient for the extraction of the metal, even on the most modest scale." 



APPENDIX III. 



Irish Bkonze Celts preserved in the National Museum, Dublin, and in 

 certain other museums in ireland and england. 



This opportunity may be taken of adding a note as to the number of 

 Irish bronze celts preserved in the National Museum, DubUn, and also in 

 some other Museums in Ireland and England. The information as to the 

 latter has been most kindly supplied by the guardians of the various 

 collections, whose names appear in the foot-notes on this and the next page. 

 Taking the celts in the National Museum first, it may be mentioned that in 

 a paper published in the i'roceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 

 in 1915,' the present writer computed the number of those in the National 

 Museum, Dublin, including the specimens in the loan collection of the Eoyal 

 Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, at over 1500. A recount has shown that 

 this figure was slightly excessive ; the correct number at the date given in 

 the paper (November, 1914) should have been somewhat under 1500. In July, 

 1860, Sir William Wilde^ computed the number of celts, including those of 

 copper, at CSS. The collection has thus more than doubled in a period of 

 under sixty years. In the British Museum there are 350 Irish celts of different 

 types, including those of copper.^ In the Public Art Gallery and Museum, 

 Belfast, there are 350 celts of bronze, including 110 flat celts, 125 palstaves, 

 and 115 socketed celts.* The Museum of University College, Cork, contains 

 58 celts, including 22 flat, 21 palstaves, and 15 socketed examples ; in 

 addition to these, the Eev. Professor Power has 7 celts in his private 

 collection.^ In the Carnegie Free Library and Museum, Limerick, there are 



1 XXVII, 2nd series, p. 253. 



2 Op. cit., p. 361. 



2 Ex. inform. Mr. R. A. Smith, f.s.a. 



* Ex inform. Mr. Arthur Deane. 



° Ex inform, the Bev. Professor Power, m.r.i.a. 



