HEADS OF MEGACEROS HIBERNICUS, SHOWING VARIOUS 
TYPES 
Fig. i. —Skull and antlers from Loch Gur, County Limerick.—The right antler 
is unusually bifurcated. Heads of this type of abnormal horn-growth rarely occur. 
A head very similar to this one was unearthed in 1895, whilst another, with long 
frontal tines, was discovered some years previously. These came from the same 
locality as the first. 
Fig. 2.—This remarkable head, with the complete skeleton, was presented to the 
Royal Dublin Society by Archdeacon Maunsell in 1824. It is by f ar the best in their 
Museum, which contains some fifty others. Besides being a head which has required 
little restoration, it is remarkable for its great weight (skull and antlers 87 lbs.), the 
extraordinary width of the palms (22^ inches), and the fact that the sur-antlers are 
double pointed. What this great head has gained in weight of horn and palmation 
is slightly lost in general elegance of form and span. Length of the right antler along 
outside curve is 5 feet 9 inches. 
Fig. 3.—This head, from County Waterford, is in direct contrast to Fig. 2. 
The horn-growth on the skull of a fine adult animal has distributed itself into long 
elegant points, which, combined with good span, have taken away to a certain degree 
from the breadth of the palm. The measurements of this head are as follows : Spread 
(tip to tip), 9 feet 4 inches ; length round inside of horn, 6 feet (right horn), left 
horn, 5 feet 8 inches ; circumference above burr, 10J inches ; width of palm, 174 
inches ; points 13 + 10. In the possession of J. G. Millais. 
Fig. 4.—Skull and antlers of a very old stag, evidently “going back,” points 
clubbed and weak and not fully developed. In possession of Sir E. Loder. Span, 
widest, 6 feet 8 inches. Limerick. 
