Discovery Of The Tomb Ollamh F

Author : Eugene Alfred Conwell
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ISBN 13 : 9781332009046
Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book Discovery of the Tomb of Ollamh Foohla written by Eugene Alfred Conwell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Discovery of the Tomb of Ollamh Foohla: Ireland's Famous Monarch and Law-Maker Upwards of Three Thousand Years Ago Some portions of the following pages originally contributed to the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, in a Paper read at a meeting of that body on 12th February, 1872, "On the Identification of the Ancient Cemetery at Lougherew, Co. Meath, and the Discovery of the Tomb of Ollamh Fodhla." Our attempt to rescue from the domain of legend and romance the memories of a locality, at one time the most famous in our island, and in so doing to revive a faded and long forgotten page in early Irish History, is here presented to our fellow-countrymen, in the hope that it may be found not only not uninteresting to them, but that it may be the means of inducing others, in various localities, to turn their attention to, and to elucidate whatever remains of Ireland's Ancient Relics may be still extant in their respective vicinities. Our very grateful thanks are pre-eminently due to the late J. L. W. Naper, Esq., D. L., who, from the time we commenced our antiquarian researches on the Loughcrew Hills, in 1863, uniformly encouraged and aided us in supplying the amount of manual labour necessary for carrying on the explorations, without which friendly encouragement and patriotic help, whilst others laughed at what appeared to them the foolish and childish occupation of a "visionary antiquary" turning over old stones, no practical result would probably ever have been arrived at. Had he lived to see it shown that the greatest, the oldest, and the most important of the Ancient Royal Pagan Cemeteries of Ireland existed on and around his own hills, we can only imagine the amount of self-satisfaction with which he would have looked back upon the part he took in contributing to restore the historic memories of the place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.