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that the Academy should know that the manuscript Museum Catalogue, 
such as it was, has not been written up for a considerable length of time. 
If the plan I propose is followed out for the future, the records of all 
additions to our catalogue will be a matter of comparative ease. Besides, 
the proper public acknowledgment of these donations is gratifying to 
those who have given, and may prove an incentive to those who still have 
to give. 
«On the part of Richard Maguire, Esq., of Newgrange, county of 
Meath, I beg to present a rather rare form of bronze pin, No. 524, dis- 
covered in the rampart of one of the circular enclosures which lie between 
the great tumulus of Newgrange and the River Boyne ; it possesses pecu- 
liar interest from the cirenmstances of the locality in which it was found. 
‘On the part of Marcus Harty, Esq., C. E.—A very beautiful cinerary 
urn, now numbered 50 in the collection. It is 4 inches high, 54 broad 
in the widest portion, which is a little above the middle, and 33 inches 
in the clear of the mouth. The ornamentation upon it, although per- 
formed by a rude instrument, exhibits considerable skill and handiwork. 
The form of the vessel is very graceful, and the lip has been decorated 
in a manner similar to the external surface. It was found in June, 
1849, in the centre of a stone cairn on the top of Tibradden Mountain, 
county of Dublin, in a stone chamber filled with charcoal and burned 
bones, of which latter there is a collection on the table, and although so 
great a length of time has elapsed since they were deposited, they ex- 
hibit unmistakeable evidences of the rapid action of fire. A second urn 
was found in the same tumulus, but was so much broken, that no portion 
of it remains to the present day. Mr. Harty has added to the value of 
his donation by affording an accurate drawing and ground plan of the 
mound, together with a tracing of the road from Dublin to the spot, and_ 
both of which are deposited in the archives of the Academy. 
<< Also from Mr. Harty, a crescentic piece of cast bronze, No. 65 in the 
registration of Miscellaneous Articles. It was found in a gravel pit near 
the River Boyne at Navan, immediately beneath Athlumny Castle. What 
renders it particularly interesting to the antiquarian is, that it presents 
all the appearance of having been the ferule at the end of an ancient sword 
scabbard, an implement which we do not possess an example of in the 
Academy, nor indeed in any other collection of Irish antiquities that I 
know of. 
‘‘From Mr. Hayes, of Moate, county of Westmeath, I present two 
curious ancient single-piece shoes. Having carefully examined and com- 
pleted the catalogue of leathern objects during the past year, I can speak 
as to the value of this donation, to which, although we have many objects 
of a like nature, we have nothing identical in the Museum. Although 
right and left shoes, they are of totally different patterns, and, I should 
say, belonged to different periods. The first, now No. 13 in our collec- 
tion, is a left-footed, round-toed shoe of the pampoota shape, with an 
open-work front, so that it was not intended to keep out the wet. It 
is sewn with a thong both in the back seam and along the open-work, 
and was laced to the foot with leathern sandals like the modern pam- 
poota. ‘It was found in the bog of Buggaun, parish of Ballymore, 
near Moate, in July, 1858, many feet under the surface ;’ and, adds the 
