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anotlier instance a group of three or more urns, of a larger 

 size, appeared pressed together. On removing the broken 

 pieces of each urn the bones appeared in a httle conical heap 

 within, in very small fragments, the larger ones having fallen 

 to the sides, mixed at bottom with black unctuous earth, and 

 occasionally small morsels of charred wood. In the very 

 large and fine .urn which had been found previous to Mr. 

 Smith's visit to the tumulus, and which he now presented to 

 the Academy in the name of Mr. Kelly of Drogheda, by 

 whom it had been disinterred, some very interesting matters 

 had been found mixed up with a very considerable quantity 

 of human remains which it contained. These consisted of a 

 flint arrow head, a curious curved needle of bone, one end 

 of which was flattened and perforated, and some small stone 

 tools, one of which seemed likely to have been used in 

 making the indentations or rudely sculptured patterns by 

 which this urn, in common with all the others, was orna- 

 mented ; and lastly, a small, thin scale of copper, pierced with 

 a small hole. No other metallic remains of any kind were dis- 

 covered, nor upon the closest inquiry does there seem any 

 ground for supposing that any ornaments, either of silver or 

 gold, such as have been so frequently obtained in barrows 

 and other sepulchral tumuli, both here and in England, were 

 found in this rath. This last mentioned urn, which was the 

 largest discovered here, measures seventeen inches in height, 

 and the same in extreme breadth ; and would probably con- 

 tain about eight gallons of liquid. 



The most remarkable differences between this tumulus 

 and most other repositories of the ashes of our pagan pi-e- 

 decessors, both in this country and in England, appear to be 

 the vast number of urns which wei'e found here, in one vast 

 cemetery, and the total absence of any kiat of flags, or other 

 cavity formed to receive and protect the urns fi-om the pres- 

 sure of the earth either laterally or from above. 



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