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Monpay, Fesruary 257u, 1856. 
THOMAS ROMNEY ROBINSON, D.D., Preswent, 
in the Chair. 
Own the recommendation of the Council, it was 
Resotvep,—That the additional annual Grant of £200 
given by Parliament be devoted —£100 per annum to the pur- 
chase of Books for the Library; and £100 per annum for the 
purchase of Antiquities for the Museum. 
It was also— 
Reso.vep,—That it is the opinion of the Academy, that 
in case the sums appropriated to these several purposes be not 
expended within one year, the balance should be carried over 
to the credit of the Library and Museum respectively. 
Mr. Huband Smith read a paper on the history of the Castle 
and Manor of Baggotrath, and exhibited a drawing from a 
sketch made by Gabriel Beranger, about the year 1760; also 
a curious plan of the array of the Parliamentary forces of the 
garrison of Dublin, as drawn out before the battle which took 
place in 1649, in which the royal army, under the command of 
the Marquis of Ormonde, sustained a remarkable defeat, the 
disastrous effects of which ended in the total ruin of the royal 
cause in Ireland. ‘This curious plan, which is without name 
or date, is preserved in a valuable collection of ancient maps 
and drawings, in the MS. room of the Library of Trinity 
College, and is noticed, among others, in a paper read before 
the Academy by the late James Hardiman, in 1824. From 
this plan it would appear that a sort of entrenchment ex- 
tended round a considerable extent of land, comprehending 
within its limits St. Stephen’s-green, and probably Merrion- 
square, Fitzwilliam-square, and the site of the adjoining streets. 
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