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the relics for the museum, — a circumstance greatly to he regretted, 
as this crannog is justly regarded as one of the most important and 
richest in archaeological remains ever found in Ireland. The late 
Lord Talbot de Malahide, writing in the Archaeological Journal for 
June 1849, says : — “A great portion of these valuable relics became 
the property of the late Dr Dawson, Dean of St Patrick’s, and on 
his decease were purchased, with the rest of his Irish antiquities, 
and presented to the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy. Surgeon 
Wilde also presented to the same institution a valuable collection of 
the bones found in the same locality. Mr Barnwall, the owner of 
the soil, still possesses some remnant of this treasure, after having 
been plundered to a considerable extent by dishonest servants ; 
and those specimens which I possess, representations of some of 
which are given in illustration of this paper, I owe to the liberality 
and kindness of the same gentleman.” 
But, in addition to its wealth of industrial remains, the Lagore 
crannog possesses a special value in the fact that frequent references 
have been made to it in the Irish Annals. Hence may be deter- 
mined with tolerable accuracy the period of its occupancy. Thus, 
in 843 A.D., we read that Cinaedh “ plundered the island of Loch 
Gabhor and afterwards burned it, so that it was level with the 
ground.” It would appear, however, to have been rebuilt after 
this catastrophe, as, in the year 933, we find it stated that ‘‘the 
island of Loch Gavor was pulled down by Aulair O’Hivair.” 
A few months after the discovery at Lagore, an island, “ artificially 
formed of timber and peat,” became exposed upon the lowering of 
the water in Roughan Lake near Dungannon. Another, in similar 
circumstances, came to light in Lough Gur, County Limerick, from 
which a vast collection of bones and a number of antiquities were 
obtained — among the latter being a stone-mould for casting bronze 
spear-heads. Mr Shirley, in his “Account of the Kingdom of 
Barney,” describes a crannog which had been previously known as 
“ The island Ever MacCooley’s house.” “ The foundations of this 
ancient house,” writes Mr Shirley, “ were discovered in the autumn 
of 1843, 7 feet below the present surface of the earth, in the 
little island at Lisanisk, and 2 feet below the present water level 
of the lake a double row of piles were found sunk in the mud ; 
they were formed of young trees from 6 to 12 inches in diameter. 
