Irish Horn

Booleybrien

Description: Class II end blow. 4 cones and 4 holes at end, 4 cones at bell, External curvilinear length 2’ 2". Found in a hoard in association with a sun-flower pin, two socketed axes, two rings, three bronze rings with transverse perforations, eleven some triple, and a sword-hilt fragment. According to MacWhite, the form of the chain-links, the sun-flower pin and the transversely perforated rings find clearly to Late Bronze Age B, more probably early in this phase than late (c. 600-400 BCE) (He cites Raftery 1942: p.64).

Chute Hall, Co. Kerry (6-off)

SD7a

Location: National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ref: N.M.I. 1887: 36

Co. Antrim

Description: Class I end-blow. Plain bell, ribs on tube, ribs at end, loop.

Irish Horn from Derrynane, Co. Kerry

Description: Class II side-blow. 6 cones and 5 holes at bell, collar repair at end, ring on loops.

Macroom, Co. Cork (2-off)

SD27a Macroom

Description: Class II end-blow. 6 ribbed cones and 4 holes at bell, 4 ribbed cones and 4 holes at collared end

Moyarta, Co Clare (4-off)

SD29a Moyarta

Description: Class II end-blow. 4 cones at bell, 4 cones and 4 holes at end

Near Clogh Oughter Castle, Corracanvy, Co. Cavan (3-off)

SD4a Near Clogh Oughter Castle

Description: Class I end-blow. Grouped ribs and domes on tubes, zigzag grooves and domes at bell (cf.l)

Roscrea, Co. Tipperary (1-off)

Description: Class I end-blow. 4 ribs at bell

Location: National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ref: N.M.I. W5. MacWhite, Plate xvii, 3; Wilde, 1861, 633

Scrabby Bog, nr. Garrison, Co. Fermanagh (1-off)

Description: Class I end-blow. Ribs on tube

Location: National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ref: N.M.I. 1921: 11. MacWhite, Plate xiv, 7