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low, or his heirs or representatives, on his or their demand, 
and without any delay, charge, or hindrance whatever. 
‘* Signed, subject to the approbation of the Academy, 
‘¢H. Luoyp, President.” 
Ir was Resotvep,—That the deposit of the Book of 
Armagh be accepted by the Academy, on the conditions 
named ; and that the thanks of the Academy be voted to the 
Rev. Francis Brownlow, and to Arthur R. Nugent, Esq. 
W. R. Wilde, Esq., exhibited and described the * Mias 
Tighearnain,” an ancient Irish shrine, from the barony of 
Tyrawley, County of Mayo, which had been lent to him by 
Annesley Knox, Esq., for that purpose. 
Iv was Resotvep,—That the thanks of the Academy be 
presented to Mr. Knox, by whose permission the Mias Tigher- 
nain has been exhibited to the Academy. 
Mr. Wilde presented a collection of Celtic antiquities, 
weapons, ornaments, domestic implements, sepulchral urns, 
and some animal remains, found in ancient tumuli, from Arthur 
R. Nugent, Esq., Portaferry, from whom Mr. Wilde made a 
communication in 1844. These interesting relics consisted of 
a very large stone celt, eight inches long ; several flint arrow- 
heads, among which is one of the most beautiful, both in form 
and execution, which the Academy has yet received; three flint 
knives, two very rude and apparently in the process of forma- 
tion ; a small sharpening stone; and four small circular stone 
discs, perforated in the centre, and probably used for the dis- 
taff ;—all discovered in the County of Down, a locality re- 
markably rich in antiquities of this description. He also 
presented some silver pieces, among which was a shilling of 
Elizabeth and one of James I. 
The sepulchral urns, two in number, one very perfect, 
the other in fragments, but capable of being restored, were dis- 
covered along with some incinerated bones, charred wood, and 
