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ETHICS OF BOXING AND MANLY SPORT.
Druim Dearg (i. e., of the Red Hill, or Ridge, now Down). His head was cut off, and sent to England to King Henry III.; and probably this seal fell into the hands of the English victors, who carried it to England, and this accounts for its being found in Yorkshire."
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ANCIENT IRISH SEAL.
Found in Yorkshire, England.
Sir Richard Cox, in his "Hibernia Anglicana" (p. 69), states that this battle was fought in the streets of Down. His words are: "Many of the Irish chiefs were slain, namely, Brian O'Neill, the chief of Ireland [Macgeoghan's translation calls him King of the Irish of Ireland] , and fifteen chiefs of the family of O'Cathain (O'Kane) were slain on the field."
