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Committee of Antiquities. 



George Petrie, LL. D. ; Rev. James H. Todd, D. D. ; 

 J. Huband -Smith, Esq., A. M. ; Aquilla Smith, M. D. ; 

 Earl of Dunraven ; Major Larcom, R. E. ; Lord Talbot de 

 Malahide. 



The President, under his hand and seal, nominated the 

 following Vice-Presidents for the current year: — 



James Apjohn, M. D. ; Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, D. D. ; 

 Major Larcom, R. E. ; George Petrie, LL. D. 



Rev. Dr. Graves said, it was his duty, on the part of Mr. 

 Richard Hitchcock, to present to the Museum of the Aca- 

 demy tAvo inscribed Ogham monuments, and a portion of an 

 ancient quern. Mr. Hitchcock had described the articles in a 

 letter, from which the following Avas an extract : — 



" The stone Avhich I have marked No. 1 (my neAv disco- 

 very last autumn) is believed to have been originally brought 

 from the same rath in which Avas found another fine Ogham 

 monument, now preserved at Lougher. It is a good spe- 

 cimen of these inscriptions. No. 2 was the lintel over the 

 doorway of a little building of this ground form (Q), the flat 

 side shoAving Avhere the doomvay was, in a rath at Gortna- 

 gullanagh. Outside this building Avas another circle, running 

 round it. This stone bears a remarkably well-preserved 

 Ogham inscription, and exhibits two deeply cut crosses, one 

 on either side of the stone. In order to prevent mistake, it 

 may be necessaiy to state clearly, that this stone was not 

 found in the souterrain of the rath, the little building above 

 referred to having been on the surface of the ground but 

 within the enclosure of the rath. An ancient quern was also 

 found near the Ogham stone in this fort, and as I thought it 

 an interesting addition, I procured one stone of it, which ac- 

 companies the Ogham inscription." 



