School: Clochar
- Location:
- Clogher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Gealbháin
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- From time to time things are found in bogs dug up and turned up with the plough. Some of these are in my possession now.I have
1. 4 stone Celts
2. 2 bayonets dug up at Frenchill - scene of the encounter between the French and English in 1798.
3. A semicircular stone evidently a sharpening stone of some sort found at the bottom of a bog about twelve feet deep.
4. A large lump of butter found in the bog.One of the celts given to me was of granite - a kind of stone not found in this district. It was the most beautiful of its kind I ever saw.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Micheál Ó Gealbháin
- Gender
- Male