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ANCIENT WEAPONS USED IN IRELAND.
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resented a mounted cavalier, with a very long sword drawn in his hand, round which is the following inscription:—

'S. BRIEN REGIS. DE KENEL. EOGAIN.'

No. 16.
FIRBOLG BATTLE-AXE.— Bronze.

"Brian O'Neill was King of Cineal Eoghain (Kinel Owen, or Tyrone) from A. D. 1241 to 1260, when, along with many others of the Irish chieftians, he was slain in the battle of