Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . e tobe met with in the lower deposits of thefloor. The chief interest in this discoveryrests in the fact that remains of the greatIrish elk {Alcgaceros Hibernicus) werefound in it, in conjunction with the bonesof other deer and of bears, and alongwith a polished greenstone celt (neolithic)and several stone rubbers. There were also some remarkable evidences metwith o
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . e tobe met with in the lower deposits of thefloor. The chief interest in this discoveryrests in the fact that remains of the greatIrish elk {Alcgaceros Hibernicus) werefound in it, in conjunction with the bonesof other deer and of bears, and alongwith a polished greenstone celt (neolithic)and several stone rubbers. There were also some remarkable evidences metwith of the association of man with the great Irish elk. Professor LeithAdams, who removed and packed these remains, says that many of the bonesof the megaceros were evidently split for their marrow, and several elk cannon-bones were found fashioned into awls and gauges, showing that man was notonly cotemporaneous with the giant stag of Ireland, but also may have helpedto exterminate it. The explorations of this cave promise to open out a new erain the prehistoric history of Ireland. Helvick Head, the southern boundary of Dungarvan Bay, is four miles dis-tant, and rises 231 feet above the sea. The southern coast eastwards is very. Coumshinaun. »5--*«
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