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Cover of All Because of a Toothbrush.
Cover of All Because of a Toothbrush.
Cover of All Because of a Toothbrush.This is a collaborative novel created with the aid of every fifth class child in Co. Longford.
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Sitting room, MacGreevy family home,Tarbert
Sitting room, MacGreevy family home,Tarbert
Photograph of the sitting room of the MacGreevy family home.A portrait of MacGreevy hangs over the mantlepiece
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Gold Freedom Box
Gold Freedom Box
The certificate of honorary freedom of the city of Waterford was presented in this box to John Fane (1759-1841)
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The Great Parchment Book
The Great Parchment Book
This unique book, also known as the Liber Antiquissimus, was compiled possibly at the instigation of mayor James Rice in the late 15th century.
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Dog collar
Dog collar
Dog collar made from copper alloy.
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Viking Lead Weight, 2
Viking Lead Weight, 2
The function of the weights was to measure silver, in a period when silver bullion, (a precursor of formal coinage) was becoming the main medium of economic exchange. Silver, whether in the form of coins, ingots or cut fragments of other objects, was weighed against such lead weights in simple balance scales.
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Knife Handle
Knife Handle
A knife handle made of unidentified wood and beautifully decorated. The design is incised not carved.
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Stone Corbel
Stone Corbel
Stone corbel (beam support) has been carved into a head with the typical haircut of a Dominican monk.
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Coin Balance
Coin Balance
A complete fold-up coin balance used to ensure that a silver penny was the proper weight.
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Opium poppy pods - Corcomroe Abbey, Co. Clare
Opium poppy pods - Corcomroe Abbey, Co. Clare
Corcomroe Abbey, Co. Clare. Opium poppy pods. The opium poppy was not indigenous to Ireland, but was known to have been cultivated in monastic gardens due to its medicinal properties.
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland



