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at the year 890 : Suibne iiTc TTIaoilhumaj ancopicc Cluana mac 

 noip, Dej- 



Thus also in the Annals of Ulster at the same year, or 

 more correctly 891 : Suibne mac ITlaele humai, Qncopica, ec 

 pcpiba opcimup Cluana mac noip, oopmiuic. 



To the latter entry, Doctor O'Conor, in his Rerum Hib. 

 Scrij^iores, appends the following note : 



" Suibneum hunc Annales Anglosaxonici Suifnethum ap- 

 pellant. — Vide Chron. Saxon, ad ann. 891, ' Tres Scoti de 

 Hibernia, ad ^Elfredum regem Anglorum venerunt, Dubsla- 

 nus, Maccebethus , et Mcslinmiinus, Swifneth etiam, praecipuus 

 doctor qui inter Scotos fuit, decessit,' — concordat Fabius 

 ^thelwerdus, qui tertium appellat — ' Magilmumemim artibus 

 frondentem, littera doctum, magisirum insignem ScotorumJ — 

 Chron. 1. 4, c. 3. Eadem habet Wigorniensis ad ann. 892, et 

 Mathceus Florilegus,&(i ann. 891. Hue etiam referenda sunt 

 quae habet Caradocus ad ann. 889, * Suibnion Cabin Doc- 

 torum Scotise maximus obiit.' " 



Sir James Ware, in his Irish Writers, tells us, that " his 

 works, and the titles of them, are lost." 



Mr. Griffith presented, on the part of the Shannon Com- 

 missioners, a collection of antiquities discovered in the Shan- 

 non, and gave the following account of the locality and other 

 circumstances attending the discovery. 



The object of my present communication is to notice the 

 discovery of certain ancient arms in an excavation made in 

 the bed of the river Shannon at the ford of Keelogue, four 

 miles below Banagher, in the King's County. 



The ford at Keelogue, and that of Meelick, which is im- 

 mediately below it, is the first point of the river Shannon 

 which was anciently passable except by boat, above the falls 

 at Killaloe, a distance of thirty British, or nearly twenty-five 

 Irish miles ; and consequently, previously to the construction 

 of roads, and the erection of bridges at Portumna and Ba- 



