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No. 2 was found in a bog at Ballineanig, about seven feet 

 beneath the surface, and having about four feet of bog under 

 it. In the same place were found part of a pot, which, by 

 the description, appears to have been copper or brass, a por- 

 tion of basket-work, and a quantity of burned wood, &c. A 

 rude quern, appearing to have been in progress of dressing, 

 was also found about seventy yards from where the preceding 

 antiquities lay. 



^«o. 3. Several pieces of an Ogham stone, found about 

 three years since in an ancient rath at Brackloon. It is a 

 source of regret that only portions of this apparently fine in- 

 scription should have been obtained, the greater part having 

 been destroyed by some ignorant mason. 



No. 4 was found at Martramane. It lay across a fire- 

 place in a house now demolished. 



Mr. Hitchcock presented two quern stones found in forts 

 at Ballybowler and Doonmanagh, and a figured stone from 

 the village of Kilvickadownig, all in the barony of Corkaguiny, 

 county of Kerry. 



He also presented a collection of skewer-like pieces of 

 wood, called " arrows" by the peasantry, found in the bog on 

 the top of the mountain of Coumanaire, barony of Corkaguiny, 

 county of Kerry. They are found scattered about the broken 

 and weather-beaten parts of the bog, for about a quarter of a 

 mile all around, A few, which Mr. Hitchcock thinks re- 

 mained sticking in their original pl^ce in the bog, were, res- 

 pectively, two and a half and three feet below the present 

 surface. Mr. Hitchcock collected 289 of these " arrows", of 

 which he presented 264 to the Academy. There is a tradi- 

 tion current in the neighbourhood of a battle having been 

 fought near the place where the arrows were discovered. 



Mr. Yeates presented a Meteorological Journal for the year 

 ending theSIst of January, 1848. (See Appendix, No. III.) 



