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An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

CHAPTER X
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The mother had an unfinished piece of weaving beside her, with its colours still bright.

The infant was tenderly wrapped in soft black woollen cloth, to which was fastened a pair of little sandals, 2-1/2 inches long; around its neck was a green cord, attached to a small shell .-- _Pre-Historic Man_, vol.i.p.

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[167] _Clare_ .-- In 1855, in digging for a railway-cutting in the county Clare, gold ornaments were found worth L2,000 as bullion.
[168] _Carbuncle_ .-- This word was used to denote any shining stone of a red colour, such as garnet, a production of the country..


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