. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 210 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. with the date given in the inscription, (See a detailed description ofthe decoration in the ArcJmological Journal, vol. xii., p. 79, by AlexanderITesbitt.) The Dunvegan Cup was exhibited at the Dublin Exhibition of 1853,and it is noticed in the Buhlin University Magazine of November, 1858,p. 637. It is also described at length in the Journal of this Society forthe year 1860, p. 56, vol. vi., Consec. Series, in which its Irish originand workmanship are clearly shown, and that it was made in th
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 210 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. with the date given in the inscription, (See a detailed description ofthe decoration in the ArcJmological Journal, vol. xii., p. 79, by AlexanderITesbitt.) The Dunvegan Cup was exhibited at the Dublin Exhibition of 1853,and it is noticed in the Buhlin University Magazine of November, 1858,p. 637. It is also described at length in the Journal of this Society forthe year 1860, p. 56, vol. vi., Consec. Series, in which its Irish originand workmanship are clearly shown, and that it was made in thefifteenth century, at the cost of Catherine Macgrannal, wife of Maguire,Prince of Fermanagh. See also the Journal for 1880, p. 360, vol. xv.,Consec. Series, for a notice of Mary, daughter of Sir John Macleod, whomarried Maurice, second Lord of Kerry, who was summoned to attendEdward I. in his Scotch wars. Junior branches of the Macleod family. Driiiking-lioin, Dunvegan Castle. settled in Kerry, and in the records between 1400 and 1600, theirnames are set down as Mac Allied, Fitz Elgoth, Mac Lyod, and MacElgott; in the seventeenth century it assvimed the form Mac it has since retained. History and legend alike speak of Eoderick or Eorie More, the con-temporary of James VI., whose drinking-horn is one of the relics remain-ing in the castle. It is an oxs horn, ornamented with a silver rim, andcapable of containing half a gallon of wine. Every laird of Macleod itis said, as a proof of his manhood, must drink it off full of claret withoutlaying it down. In the time of Eoderick (chief from 1590 to 1626)there was a great amount of hospitality and excessive drinking in theIsles. In alluding to the joyous festivities for which the Castle of Dun-vegan was distinguished at this early period, Scott with his usual felicity,cites, from the Leahhar Bcarg, a song of gratitude, composed by Mae PROCEEDINGS. 211 Vuirich, a bard o
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