Two Irishmen of Connaught paddling a coracle

Illustration from the bottom margin of page 83 (Topographia Hibernica)

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Another picture of Two Irishmen of Connaught paddling a coracle & An Irishman riding a horse in British Library Ms. Royal 13 B VIII
Another picture of Two Irishmen of Connaught paddling a coracle in Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 720, pt.II.

Source: National Library of Ireland Ms. 700

Chapter XXVI: How numbers in the island are not baptized, and have never come to the knowledge of the faith

From 'The Topography of Ireland' by Sylvester Giraldus Cambrensis, 1187
Edited by Thomas Wright, 1863

... From this land not long afterwards they saw a small boat rowing towards them. It was narrow and oblong, and made of wattled boughs, covered and sewn with the hides of beasts. In it were two men, stark naked, except that they wore broad belts of the skin of some animal fastened round their waists. They had long yellow hair, like the Irish, falling below the shoulders, and covering great part of their bodies. The sailors, finding these men were from some part of Connaught, and spoke the Irish language, took them into the ship. ...

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