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Fesruary 137TH, 1854. 
HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., Vice-Presipent, 
in the Chair. 
Cuar.es Domvit_e, Ese., Rev. Robert Ferguson, LL.D., 
and J. R. O’Flanagan, Esq., were elected Members of the 
Academy. 
D. H. Kelly, Esq., read a paper on an ancient terraced 
gravel hill, near Castle Blakeney, county of Galway :— 
« This remarkable object is a gravel esker, near the vil- 
lage of Castle Blakeney, in the county of Galway, and is 
situated close to the remains of the old Castle of Gallagh, 
the seat of a once-powerful family of the O’Kellys of 
Hy-Many, and which furnished several chiefs to that ancient 
toparchy. 
‘* The present appearance of this esker is very remark- 
able, as may be seen by the rough sketch sent herewith. 
*« A length of 355 yards is cut off by two deep trenches at 
each end from the centre of the gravel ridge, and the part 
thus isolated is carefully levelled on the summit and the sides, 
artificially cut into terraces, like the mountain vineyards of 
the south of Europe, and the East. 
*«'The summit is carefully levelled into a terrace, 36 feet 
wide; on its southern side are five other terraces, 16 feet 
wide each; and on the north are three terraces of the same 
width still existing, but there may have been originally more, 
as a large fence now skirts the hill on that side, whose con- 
struction may have obliterated others. 
“¢ At the eastern end the terraced portion is cut off by a 
deep trench, or roadway, 20 feet wide, from an uneven mound, 
the remains of the debris of the ancient Castle of Gallagh, out 
of the ruins of which was constructed the mansion of Gallagh, 
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