r beyond the coasts of England
and Brittany may point to early raids; but the copper and tin of
Cornwall, as well as the tin deposits of Brittany and the general
trade with Brittany, may indicate the early seeking of the Irish gold
deposits. We may take as a provisional date for the lunulae, 1200 to
1000 B.C.

[Illustration: Fig. 52.--Gold Lunula found in Co. Londonderry.]

Lunulae now existing or known to have formerly existed:--

IRELAND (62 at least).

--------------+---+------------------------------------------------
County. |No.| Reference.
--------------+---+------------------------------------------------
Donegal, | 2 | R.I.A. 1889: 20 (1). Trenta, Carrigans. R.I.A.
| | 1909: 6 (1). Naran.
| |
Londonderry, | 2 | R.I.A. W. 12 (1). R.I.A. (loan 1907: 7) (1).
| |
Antrim, | 3 | Dublin Penny Journal, vol. iv, p. 295.
| |
Down, | 1 | Castlereagh, Ulster Journal of Archaeology,
| | vol. ix, p. 46.
| |
Tyrone, | 3 | Trillick, R.I.A. 1884: 495 (1). Carrickmore,
| | R.I.A. 1900: 50 (1). Tartaraghan, Ulster
| | Journal of Archaeology, vol. ix, p. 47 (at Cecil,
| | Augher) (1).
| |
Mayo, | 1 | R.I.A. 1909.
| |
Sligo, | 1 | Windele's Miscellanea, p. 206.
| |
Fermanagh, | 1 | Enniskillen (Day Coll.).
| |
Monaghan, | 1 | Ballybay (Day Coll.).
| |
Galway, | 1 | R.I.A. W. 10 (Sirr Coll.).
| |
Roscommon, | 2 | Athlone, R.I.A. W. 5, and 1893: 4.
| |
Cavan, | 3 | Newtown, R.I.A. 1884: 494 (1). Bailieborough
| | (British Museum) (1). Lisanover, Bawnboy.
| | 1910: 45 (1).
| |
Westmeath, | 2 | Ross, R.I.A. 1896: 15 (1). Mullingar, 1884:
| | 7 (1).
| |
Kildare, | 4 | Dunfierth, R.I.A. W. 4, 8, 9, and 15.
| |
Clare, | 2 | Porsoon Callan, R.I.A. 1877: 52 (1). Proc.
| | R.I.A., vol. viii, p. 83 (1).
| |
Tipperary, | 1 | Glengall (British Museum).
| |
Kerry, | 5 | Banmore, R.I.A. R., 1755, 1756, 1757 (3):
| |