. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Demesne ; but owing to itsposition, I have not been able to photograph it. It is on the top of alarge granite boulder. About ten years ago a cist was found near this (Ballynastragh) house,when a new garden was being laid out. Unfortunately I was abroad atthe time, and the cist was not preserved. From the description of itgiven to me, it seems to have been a very good specimen. In a marshy bottom, on the townland of ClonsiHagh, which lies to tlie east of BallynastraghDemesne, an interestingdiscovery was made, ac-cording to my information
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Demesne ; but owing to itsposition, I have not been able to photograph it. It is on the top of alarge granite boulder. About ten years ago a cist was found near this (Ballynastragh) house,when a new garden was being laid out. Unfortunately I was abroad atthe time, and the cist was not preserved. From the description of itgiven to me, it seems to have been a very good specimen. In a marshy bottom, on the townland of ClonsiHagh, which lies to tlie east of BallynastraghDemesne, an interestingdiscovery was made, ac-cording to my information,some hf ty years ago, in theshape of a crannog. I amnot aware that the countyWexford has, so far, fur-nished another of thesecurious habitations. Allthat remains of the Clon-sillagh crannog finds is afragment of its granitequern, which has come intomy hands through thekindness of Mr. Hughes,on whose farm it was found. The accompanying illustrations give avery good indication of what is left of this mill. I have been unableto trace the missing Portion of Mill-stonc, Clonsillagli Crannog. 406 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. The oak timbers of which the crannog was constructed were many ofthem built into neighbouring houses, where some of them are still to beseen. The next discoveries relate to some valuable fossils found on thetownlands of Killowen and Kilmichael, in the north-eastern corner ofcounty Wexford, where Dubhthaclis territory joined the sea. The first is portion of an Irish elks antlers ; it is not a very hand-some specimen, but it affords an opportunity for stating the fact thata number of others have been found in the locality. I have myselfa magnificent specimen, measuring 7 feet 6 inches across the tips of theantlers ; but owing to its position it cannot be Avell photogi aphed. Next we have red-deer horns found in the same region some yearssince ; and a still more interesting find, viz. a red-deers antlers dredgedup in October, 1898, by fisherm
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