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were to be suitable apartments for the gaoler and his 

 family. The building was to be one for the detention 

 of criminals and debtors of both sexes, and was to con- 

 tain two condemned cells ; it was to include a house 

 of correction, and a yard in which prisoners might take 

 the air. 



A sum of £100 was granted to the Rev. Benjamin 

 Domvile, 1 to be laid out in the purchase of a new mill, 

 and implements for making thread, to enable Mrs. Eliz. 

 Madden (widow of the Rev. John Madden), to extend 

 the manufacture of thread which she had established at 

 Dungiven, co. Derry. It was thought that encourage- 

 ment extended to her would lessen the importation of 

 foreign thread, which amounted to a considerable 

 quantity each year. 



Gold medals were presented to Wentworth Thewles, 

 and to Robert French, of Monivea, for reclaiming bog ; 2 

 to John Darley for ditching ; and to the Rev. Charles 

 Coote, dean of Kilmacduagh, for land sown with turnips 

 in drills — for feeding cattle in the Queen's county ; 

 and a silver medal was awarded to John Longfield, of 

 Longueville, for extensive plantation. A piece of plate, 

 in the form of a pierced silver cake- basket, of Dublin 

 manufacture (hall mark 1772, John Locker), was pre- 

 sented by the Society to Lancelot Sandes for reclaiming 

 bog in the Queen's county in 1769. He was awarded 

 a premium of £25, and the basket, with suitable in- 

 scription, was perhaps given in lieu of the money. In 

 the year 1 9 1 2 there was a risk of this being sold outside 



1 Rev. Benjamin Harrington, dean of Armagh, inherited the estate 

 of his uncle, Sir Compton Domvile, at Loughlinstown, co. Dublin, on 

 the latters decease in 1768, when he assumed the name of Domvile 

 and retired from the deanery. Ball's Hist. Co. Dublin, i. 93. 



2 Mr. French sent an account of his reclamation of bog in a 

 letter to the Society which is printed in full in Arthur Young's 

 Journal, i. 369. 



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