Mystery over discovery of 18th century sword found in teacher’s drawer in Galway

I'll bet that principal had a FUN day taking it away from some student. My most FUN day was taking an eight inch French chopping knife away from a girl who was swinging it over her head while running down the hall yelling something about her boyfriend to another girl. Why do Irish school teachers get to have all the FUN?

My old sword is older than your old sword what a childish post. Old Celtic swords 2000 years old have been found in Ireland.

interesting,wish it could speak,i hope it dealt justice for old ireland.

Presumably before teachers brought guns to school.

Yes, and it was probably owned by some anglo squatter anyway.

That is not so old. The sword of El Cid, which is in a museum in Toledo, Spain, is something like 1,000 years old. The alleged sword of "Braveheart" in Stirling, Scotland, would be more than 700 years old. The sword found by Ste. Joan of Arc, behind an altar in 1429 in the church of Ste. Catherine of Fierbois, which might have been used by Charles Martel in the 8th century or thereabouts, has been lost--I think. So finding a sword of the type here, to me, is no big chihuahua.