The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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John Folliott, Major and Colonel (1660 - 1697)

Irish politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons for Ballyshannon from 1692 to 1693. Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Folliott_(1660%E2%80%931697) Agent - excavator
 Relevant locations: Lived at or near Ballymacward, County Galway
 Relationships: John Folliott was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Thomas Molyneux (14 Apr 1661-19 Oct 1733)

 References in Documents:
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669)

In the Year 1691., Major Folliot told me, that digging for Marle near the Town Ballymackward, where he lives, not far from Ballyshannon in the County of Fermanagh, he found buried Ten Foot under plain solid Ground, a Pair of these sort of Horns, which he keeps still in his Possession.