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published in Dr. Petrie's "Antiquities of Tara," a work that ought to be found in all our large American libraries.

In A. D. 1024, died a poet named Cuan O'Lothchain, who had also written about the great No. 23.
BRONZE MACE. (See page 176. barrack at Tara. Here is the stanza relating to it:—

"I speak farther of the fortress of the champions;

(Which was also called the fortress of foolish women);
The house of the champions was not a weak one,

With its fourteen opening doors."

The best account of the Fianna Eireann is given by the Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Keating, in his