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Monpay, JuNE 137TH, 1853. 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D. D., Presrpent, 
in the Chair. 
EvuceEne Curry, Esq., was elected a Member of the Academy. 
Dr. Todd exhibited to the Academy an ancient Irish reli- 
quary, composed of brass and silver, of exquisite workman- 
ship. It represents a human arm, with closed hand, and is 
believed to have contained portions of the hand or arm of 
St. Lachtin [pr. Lachteen], abbot or bishop of Achadh-ur 
[Fresh-field, now by an erroneous translation called Fresh- 
ford], in the county of Kilkenny. 
St. Lachtin was a native of Muscraighe (now Muskerry), 
in the county of Cork, and was descended from the royal 
family of Conaire II., King of Ireland in the second cen- 
tury. He died, according to the Annals of the Four Masters, 
in the year 622; and his memory was venerated by the Irish 
Church on the 19th of March. 
This curious reliquary is now the property of Andrew 
Fountaine, Esq., of Narford Hall, near Swaffham, Norfolk, 
and has been in the possession of his family for many years. 
The opportunity of exhibiting it to the Academy has been pro- 
cured through the influence of Lord Talbot de Malahide, by 
whom it has been borrowed from its owner, to be exhibited 
with the Academy’s Museum at the Great Exhibition. 
It has already been engraved, and a short account of it 
printed in the Vetusta Monumenta, published by the Society 
of Antiquaries of London ; but the interpretation there given 
of the inscriptions upon it is full of inaccuracies. It had been 
previously exhibited to that Society by Sir Andrew Fountaine 
in 1829. 
There are four inscriptions, on plates of brass, running 
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