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Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1915 (1910s)
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
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Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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the soldiers had hung their knapsacks andcartridge-boxes against the wall. In the Booh of Lismore there are several references to book-satchels. The two following passages are taken, with the trans-lations, from Whitley Stokes Lives of the Saints :— Uair babes dosom crosa 7 polaire 7 tiagha leabur 7 aidhmeeclusdai arcena (do denum). Senais immorro ccc. cros 7 .ccc. tiprat7 .c. polaire 7 .c. bachall 7 .c. tiagh. For it was his wont (i.e., St Colomb-Cilles) to make crosses,and writing-tablets, and book-satchels, and other church-gear. Nowhe sained three hundred crosses, and three hundred wells, and ahundred tablets, and a hundred croziers, and a hundred satchels. .... co tuc-side Colum mac Crimhthain cona theigh liubhar. and (the guardian angel) brought Colum, son of Crimhthan, withhis book-satchel (to St Findian of Clonard on his death bed). The use of the word polaire above alongside tiagh and tiagha leabur is noteworthy. Its later use as a synonym of Plate XXXII ) (To face page 308
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SHIELD IN THE COLLECTION OF MR. D. M. BELL SOME EARLY ORNAMENTED LEATHERWORK 309 tiagh liubair is curious. The derivation seems to be frompugillar, a writing tablet. Irish and Scottish Shields Edmund Spenser, writing in 1597, describes the Irish as using round leather targets. He also saw in use amongst the northernIrish and the Irish Scots a long wicker shield that should covertheir whole bodies. He did not see this large shield in the southernparts of Ireland.1 There is in the collection of the 0Donovan of Lissard a circularshield of deer-skin on a wood base, about 19 inches in diameter,which is reputed to have belonged to the last Chieftain of theODonovan family, in the sixteenth century. It is studded withbrass nails arranged in a sort of sexfoil design, and it has a bronzeboss, or umbo, about an inch in height in the centre.2 Scottish shields, a good many of which have survived, and arepreserved in public and private collections in Scotland, are of threekinds—namely, the buckle

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