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April 22nd, 1839. 
SIR Wn. R. HAMILTON, A. M., President, in the Chair. 
The Rey. Dr. Walsh read a paper on a Sepulchral Urn 
and Stone Coffin found in the Parish of Kilbride, with some 
notices of the Parish. 
The union of Kilbride, county of Wicklow, consists of 
four parishes, forming a triangular area of fifteen miles in 
circumference, bounded by the River Ovoca, the sea coast, 
and a line drawn from one to the other. The Irish language 
is entirely extinct among the peasantry, and though the names 
of places and particular objects are very expressive in that 
language, they are altogether unintelligible to the people. Not 
an individual among them can speak a word of their native 
tongue. The majority are of the reformed religion, English 
colonists located in this maritime district, after the wars of 
Elizabeth, Cromwell, and James. They preserve many tradi- 
tions of their achievements; one family kept a sword taken 
from the last tory seen in the county, whom they killed. It 
had six pounds of brass in the hilt, obtained perhaps from the 
copper mines of Cronebane, long before they were regularly ~ 
worked. The people are serious and religious, and dis- 
tinguished for their moral qualities, dishonesty is unknown 
among them, and their sobriety is such, that there is not a 
public house in the union of fifteen miles in extent, nor 
did Dr. Walsh remember to have ever seen in the parish a 
drunken man on Sunday. 
The land is divided by a ridge of hills rising through the 
centre, dividing it into the Vale of Ovoca and the Vale of 
Redcross. This ridge affords many lovely prospects from its 
summit. One was compared by Dr. Pococke to the view he 
had seen of the Vale of Nazareth, from the ridges of | : 
Mount Lebanon. The sea shore isa level strand, lined with 
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