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tcrriiic slaughter. A i)rincc named Llcwelin auch dorchag, or Lleweliii of the Golden torques, is also mentioned in the Welch annals. Irish literature seems nuich richer in its notices of the tore. According to Macgeoghegan's translation of Clonmac- noise, of the twelfth century, said to be a transcript of Sean- cus Moir, compiled in the fifth century, gold mines were discovered in the reign of Teghernmas, twenty-sixth king of Ireland, who caused Ucadon of Acalaun, at Fothart, county of

icklow, to make gold and silver pins, to put in men and 

women's garments about the neck. He died, according to Flaherty's Chronicle, A.II. 3034— B.C. 789 In the Irish Annals, Minemon, of the Hibernian line, A.M. 3.222 — B.C. 781, was the first native monarch wdio decorated the necks of his nobility Avith collars, and gave them bracelets ; under his son Aldero'oid rin";s came into use. According to ]lr. Petrie^, Cornac Mac Ast wore a fine purple garment, a gold brooch on his breast, and a mun fore, or collar of gold, about his neck, and a belt of gold set with precious stones around him. In the legend of St. Bren- dan, the tore of the king Dermot Mac Ceareb Heoil is men- tioned, for the king in a dream beholds an angel taking it, and giving it to St. Brendan. The king Brian Boroimhe, A.D. 1004, on leaving Armagh, where he had sojourned a week, left a collar of gold weighing 20 oz. on the altar of the church at Innisfallen ; and in A.D. 1150, according to the Annals of the four masters, Flabbert Bolchan, abbot of Derry, made a visitation in Kinleogan, county Tyrone, and received from Murcheartach Huachlochluin, king of Ireland, tw^enty oxen, the king's own horse, and a gold ring of 5 oz. weight ; in A.D. 1151, he made a visitation to Siol-Cathasaich, and received from Cuculad O Flan, a horse and a gold ring of 2 oz. weight ; from each noble, a horse, and from every master of a family a sheep. In the memoirs published by the Ord- nance surveyors mention is made of rings presented to the crib or successor of Kolumbkill, to wdiom, in A.D. 1151, Cooly O Flynn presented one of 2 oz., and in A.D. 1153, one of an oz. Aveighf^. In a MS. of Trinity college, Dublin, '■ ArcliKoL, vol. ii. p. 37. Petrie in Dublin, 1830. p. ]cS3. Dublin Penny Journal, vol. iii. p. 413. ' Ibid.

• Arcliffol. loc. cit. Petrie, Hk ibid. ■* Petrie in Dublin Penny Journal, vol.

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