EXPEANATION OF (EEAdin valde 
Shell-mound of Patella vulgata L., at the pre-historic settle- 
ments at Portnafeadog (Dog’s Bay), near Roundstone, Conne- 
mara. Probably a refuse heap, or ‘‘kitchen-midden,” made by 
the accumulation of shells of animals used for food.—(See 
page 187). 
(From a photograph by R. Welch, reproduced, by _per- 
mission, from Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, ser. 3 
VOlS 35 O55). 
