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‘* Two or three fields north of Cahernagat is another, but 
much larger enclosure, of a different class—a Calluragh—in 
which may be seen the ruins of an ancient oratory, to- 
gether with numerous monumental stones and graves, and 
in the dry wall outside the enclosure, sunk in the ground, is 
the rudest, and perhaps one of the largest, stone crosses I have 
ever seen. Mr. Goodman having made an examination of a 
few of the graves, found in one of them a number of curious 
natural objects, which must have been brought some distance 
off, mostly from the sea-shore.” 
George Petrie, LL. D., read the following notice on some 
Roman Coins lately found near Rathfarnham, and presented 
to the Academy by Mr. R. Glennon. 
*« It may be in the recollection of the Academy that I have 
on various occasions drawn their attention to the facts of fre- 
quent discoveries of Roman, Carthaginian, and other ancient 
coins having taken place in Ireland, and that on those occa- 
sions I expressed my opinion that it was desirable to preserve, 
when practicable, such coins in our National Museum, and to 
record the places and times of their discovery. Such has been 
the course pursued by the Antiquarian Society of Denmark, 
which boasts the Sovereign as their President. The Royal 
Society of Copenhagen can now boast ofa large collection of 
ancient foreign coins found in Denmark, and deposited in their 
National Museum ; and the results have been of great interest 
and historical value. I regret, however, to be constrained to 
say that as yet we have done very little in this way, or indeed 
even in endeavouring to make the valuable collection of our 
Own ancient coins which we possess, and which was the gather- 
ing of an individual of our body, a more perfect one. And 
hence it is that I have now availed myself of the opportunity 
afforded me of again drawing the attention of the Academy to 
this subject, on the occasion of having to present to our mu- 
