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joints of human fingers and toes. The urn was procured by 
Dr. Walsh, then incumbent of the parish, and was in high 
preservation, but when he endeavoured to move the stone 
coffin, it broke into fragments, which he gathered up, and 
had a good model of it made in wood, by a country carpen- 
ter on the spot. 
Dr. Walsh concluded his communication in the following 
words. ‘ The mode of sepulture by such urns and stone 
coffins is too common to trouble the Academy with details of 
them. Many are recorded in their own Transactions; but 
I cannot find that an urn in a stone coffin, inverted over two 
bones of the human fingers, has before been discovered or 
described. I have searched various archzological works, and 
can find no such thing. It only remains for me, therefore, 
to present to the Academy the urn and model of the coffin, 
&c.if they deem them worth their acceptance, and leave it to 
some more intelligent and industrious member to pursue the 
inquiry.” 
In a conversation which arose after the reading of this 
paper, the Rev. Caesar Otway gave an account ofa visit 
which he made, in company with the Dean of St. Patrick’s, 
to the same district ; and related some anecdotes of the 
opening of tumuli in other parts of Ireland. Mr. Otway 
suggested, that a deputation should be sent from the Aca- 
demy to superintend the opening of some ancient cairns, with 
a view to obtain a more accurate account of their contents, 
than can be expected when they are opened accidentally or 
by peasants. 
Mr. Petrie made some remarks on the historical interest 
of the Cairns in Ireland, most of which are noticed in the 
Trish annals, and strongly recommended that Mr. Otway’s 
suggestion should be acted on. 
