418 The Rev. H. Lloyd on the Meteorology of Ireland. 



BuNCEANA. — The meteorological instruments were put up at the guard- 

 house, — the barometer within, and the thermometers on one of the external 

 walls facing to the north ; the site was not favourable. 



KiLLYBEGS. — This lighthouse is admirably circumstanced for meteorolo- 

 gical observations. The Academy's barometer was not put up, the baro- 

 meter belonging to the lighthouse being found sufficiently good ; it was favour- 

 ably placed in the sitting-room of the light-keeper's dwelling. The thermometers 

 were fixed in an angle of the yard at the rear of the house ; the rain-gauge 

 was attached to an iron railing in the front yard. There is a sun-dial in the 

 front yard, the position of which was examined, and found correct. 



Westport — Inishgort Lighthouse. — The meteorological instruments were 

 erected at the lighthouse of Inishgort, in charge of the light-keeper. The 

 barometer belonging to the lighthouse was found sufficiently good for the ob- 

 servations ; it is placed in the sitting-room of the light-keeper. The thermo- 

 meters were fixed to one of the external walls facing northward, and the rain- 

 gauge in the small garden attached to the lighthouse. 



KiLRusH. — The meteorological instruments were erected at the guard-house, 

 close to the quay; the barometer within the guard-house, and the thermo- 

 meters attached to an external wall. The rain-gauge was fixed at the foot of 

 the flag-staff. 



Cahirciveen. — The barometer was erected in the house occupied by the 

 boatman in charge, in the town of Cahirciveen, and the thermometers and 

 rain-gauge in the yard and garden attached to it. Their site was not favourable. 



Castletownsend, — The barometer was placed in the guard-house, and the 

 thermometers on one of the external walls facing northward. The rain-gauge 

 was fixed at the foot of the flag-staff. The time of noon was found by means 

 of a dipleidoscope belonging to the officer in command of the station. 



Plan of Observation. — It is probable that over a tract of country so limited 

 as this island, the distribution of temperature, humidity, and rain, does not vary 

 materially from one year to another; and that, consequently, a tolerable approxi- 

 mation to the laws of this distribution may be obtained from the results of a 

 single year, if every precaution be adopted to insure the perfect comparability 



