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a quantity of the remains of some of the lower domesticanimals, 
at Donaghanie, in the County of Donegal ; and Mr, Wilde 
stated that he had received a communication on the subject 
from Mr. John Bell of Dungannon, informing him that they 
were found on opening a cairn contained ‘ within a circle of 
large stones, measuring seventy yards in circumference. One 
of the Rey. John Davis’s tenants requiring building materials, 
thoroughly laid open the tumulus, uncovering numerous se- 
pulchral cells. These were replete with such rudely sculp- 
tured ornaments as are frequently found in cairn chambers. 
The vertical columns supporting large flags, shortening 
inwards, one over the other, are about six feet in height, and 
the roof-stones are kept in their places by the pressure of the 
heap or cairn on their extremities. This structure is similar 
to those near Drogheda and in Rosshire, and to that which 
once stood on the banks of the Carron in Stirlingshire.” 
From this description, the similarity of the cairn at Do- 
naghanie to the great tumulus at New Grange will be at once 
recognised by the Academy; and the sculptured ornaments 
found in both these localities, and consisting of volutes, circles, 
and zig-zag characters, Mr. Wilde considered to be purely cha- 
racteristic of the ancient Pagan burial places in Ireland, and per- 
fectly distinct from that denominated Ogham writing. Of this 
sepulchral character a fine ex~- 
ample is found upon the inte- 
rior of one of the stones forming 
the upright pillars in the open 
kistvaen at Knockmany, in the 
County Tyrone, and of which 
the accompanying is a rude 
sketch. The animal remains 
found at Donaghanie consisted 
of the bones of several domes-~ 
tic animals, oxen, swine, cats, -- 
dogs, sheep, together with those we 
of geese, and other domestic fowl; and it is interesting to dis- 
