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The Eev. H. Lloyd on the Meteorology of Ireland. 



In addition to these the Academy has received observations, made upon the 

 prescribed plan, from the Eoyal Observatory of Dublin, and from the Queen's 

 Colleges at Belfast and Galway, which could not conveniently be included in 

 the following discussions, not having extended over the whole of the period 

 discussed. The observations at the Eoyal Observatory, and at the Queen's 

 College, Belfast, commenced in April, 1851, and have been continued to the 

 present time ; the necessity for their omission is the more to be regretted, as 

 they appear to have been made with every possible care. 



The positions of the several stations, together with the heights (in feet) of 

 the cisterns of the barometers above the mean sea level,* are given in the an- 

 nexed Table. They are shown in Plate vii. 



Table I. Names and Positions of the Meteorological Stations. 



No. 



I. 



II. 



III. 



IV. 



V. 



VI. 



VII. 



IVIII. 



IX. 



X. 



XI. 



XII. 



XIII. 



XIV. 



XV. 



XVI. 



Station. 



Portrush, . . 

 Buncrana, . 

 Donagliadee, 

 Killybegs, . 

 Armagh, . . 

 Killough, . . 

 Markree, . . 

 Westport,. . 

 Dublin, . . . 

 Portarlington. 

 Athy, .... 

 Courtown, . 

 Kilrush, . . 

 Dunmore, 

 Cahirciveen, 

 Castletownsend, 



County. 



Antrim, . . . . 

 Donegal, . . . . 



Down, 



Donegal, . . . . 



Armagh 



Down, 



Sligo 



Mayo, 



Dublin, . . . . 

 King's County, 

 Kildare, . . . . 

 Wexford, . . . 



Clare, 



Waterford, . . 



Kerry, 



Cork; 



Locality. 



Coast-guard station. 



Do. 



Do. 

 Lighthouse. 

 Observatory. 

 Lighthouse. 

 Observatory, 

 Lighthouse. 



Magnetical Observatory. 

 Dr. Hanlon's residence. 

 Mr. Haughton's residence. 

 Coast-guard station. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



The instruments were furnished by the Academy to the coast-guard and 

 lighthouse stations ; and were constructed under the direction of the Council, 

 and upon a common plan. They consist of a barometer, a pair of ordinary 

 thermometers (dry and wet bulb), a pair of self-registering thermometers, a 



* At Portarlington and Athy these heights have been taken from the Contour Maps of the Ord- 

 nance Survey, and must, therefore, be considered as only approximate: at all the other j)laces they 

 have been obtained by actual levelling from the nearest Ordnance bench-marks. 



