Identifier: journalofroyalso1915roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
Subjects: Ireland -- Genealogy Ireland -- History Societies, etc Ireland -- Antiquities Societies, etc
Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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running entirely across the shieldat right angles to each other, and thus dividing it into twelve separatecompartments of interlacing. All the four panels into which each ringis divided contain the same interlaced design : but the design in eachring is different from that in the other two. The whole scheme isvery beautiful, and it has been very skilfuUy worked out. Rows ofbrass nails, many of which are now missing, outlined the panels,thus making four complete circles of nails and four straight lines,running from the outer edge towards the centre. In addition therewere two groups of three nails in each of the four panels of theinnermost ring. There is no umbo, or boss, nor is there any trace ofanything of the kind having ever been apphed to the centre, whichis quite flat and undecorated, save for the crossing of the impressedlines above mentioned. Plate XXVIII (To face page M)-i %w ^m«V !^ I ,^^-iVV,Vs\ BINDING IN THE FRANCISCAN LIBRARY, DUBLIN (Obverse) Plate XXIX) (To face page 305
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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 R. 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 theR. I. A. Celtic Christian Guide. Case of St Malachys Cup at Obbier The following is taken from OLavertys Down and Connor,vol. V, pp. 130, 131 :— Father Patrick Fleming, the w

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