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several beads of glass and enamel-paste bronze ring-pins, decorated 

 button-like studs, and small white metal tubes, &c. 



AYith these and other miscellaneous articles collected in the Island- 

 bridge Find, and amounting to about 78 specimens, were found a large 

 quantity of human bones, but no perfect skull. 



Ill On the Battle or Moyttjea (in continuation). By Sie "W. B. 



Wilde. 



[Read November 12, 1866.] 



He said that, in continuation of a paper which he brought forward at 

 the last meeting of the Academy in June, upon the subject of the battle- 

 field of Southern Hoytura, county of Mayo, he divided his subject into a 

 geographical description of the great plain extending between the hill of 

 Knockmagh and Ben-Levi Mountain — an historic account of the battle — 

 and an identification of existing monuments with the record of the en- 

 gagement ; he now presented a small instalment of the last section, of 

 which the following is an abstract: — The manuscript account of the bat- 

 tle describes " The Plain of the Hurlers," upon which there still stands 

 a vast cairn, which, if my topography be correct, was erected to com- 

 memorate the death of twenty-nine youths who were killed in a game 

 of hurling the day before the battle ; and many of the circumstances 

 connected with which, as tending to fix the precise locality of the bat- 

 tle, I laid before the Academy upon a former occasion. An incident 

 connected with this battle, which must have been fought 2000 years 

 ago, is thus related in the history of the engagement : — Eochy, son of 

 Ere, King of the Belgce, or lirbolgs, upon the morning of the second 

 day of the battle, went down into a certain well to perform his ablu- 



