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male, to enable the animal to sustain its immense antlers. 
And I may also observe, that if the position of the frontal 
perforation was really as described like those in the skulls of 
the short-horned Ox and Swine of which I possess specimens, 
I cannot conceive how any wrenching off the horns from the 
peduncles or temporal bone could by any possibility produce 
such an orifice, but would, on the contrary, entirely destroy and 
tear asunder the skull. I must, therefore, leave this important 
question as it now stands ; not without, however, expressing 
a fear that many of these accounts are too highly coloured 
by the narrators, — whether purposely or not I will not say, — 
and, consequently, rather injure than support the theory they 
are intended to serve. 
The Count de Salis, proprietor of Lough Gur, informed 
Mr. Glennon that he had in his possession many spear 
heads, swords, and a brass dish, found on the Island ; and 
Captain Roberts, of Sallymount, county of Kildare, in- 
formed Mr. Glennon, in 1846, that in removing the earth 
from one of these mounds or raths, in the summer of 1845, 
he found many bones and skulls of the Giant Deer, together 
with broken horns of the same animal, and the skull of 
a man.* 
In the Leeds Intelligencer \ (1854,) occurred the following 
paragraph, copied from an Irish paper : — 
" Discovery in Ireland — Not long since, a large 
portion of a peat bog in the north of Ireland moved, leaving 
the bed quite bare; and on examining the bed afterwards, 
there were found the horns of an enormous Deer. On 
further examination of the district, there was also found a 
large mound, twenty or thirty feet in diameter, in which was 
a number of pens, made of oak in a very workmanlike 
manner ; and in the centre was deposited a number of tools, 
— stone hatchets, and hammers. The pens contained skele- 
* Zoologist, 1847, p. 1592. 
