Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . BINDING IN THE FRANCISCAN LIBRARY, DUBLIN (Obverse) Plate XXIX J [To face page 305. BINDING IN THE FRANCISCAN LIBRARY, DUBLIN (Reverse) SOME EARLY ORNAMENTED LEATHERWORK 305 Shoes in the National Museum, Dublin There is a numerous collection of boots and shoes in the IrishAntiquities Division of the National Museum, but only three of thelatter come within the scope of this paper. One, from Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim, figured at page 284 of WildesCatalogue, and at page 74 of the B. I. A. Celtic Christian Guide(1910), bears incised interlace
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . BINDING IN THE FRANCISCAN LIBRARY, DUBLIN (Obverse) Plate XXIX J [To face page 305. BINDING IN THE FRANCISCAN LIBRARY, DUBLIN (Reverse) SOME EARLY ORNAMENTED LEATHERWORK 305 Shoes in the National Museum, Dublin There is a numerous collection of boots and shoes in the IrishAntiquities Division of the National Museum, but only three of thelatter come within the scope of this paper. One, from Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim, figured at page 284 of WildesCatalogue, and at page 74 of the B. I. A. Celtic Christian Guide(1910), bears incised interlaced ornament on the instep and fretpattern at the heel. It was evidently made for a personage of goodposition. Mr Coffey places it probably not later than the eleventhcentury. Two others—not a pair, from Craigywarren Crannog, Co. Antrim,have incised spiral ornament, and are assigned to a period not later than the ninth century. They are figured at page 73 of theB. I. A. Celtic Christian Guide. Case of St Malachys Cup at Obrier The following is taken from OLavertys Down and Connor,vol. v, pp. 130, 131 :— Father Patrick Fleming, the w
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