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Rh (about the year 820), when the first notice is made of the use of battle-axes and bows and arrows in Ireland.

Chaucer bears witness that the Irish

allies of Bruce, on the field of Bannockburn (A. D. 1314), knew the use of bow and arrow, for, in apology for the English defeat, he writes: