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May 22, 1848. 



REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D. D., President, 

 in the Chair. 



On the recommendation of the Council, it was 

 Resolved, — That the sum of fifty pounds be placed at 



the disposal of the Committee of Antiquities, for the purchase 



of articles for the Museum. 



The Secretary presented, on behalf of Maurice O'Connell, 

 Esq., two large bronze axe-heads, found, with nine others,, near 

 Derrynane Abbey. Also a bronze spear-head and gold ring, 

 found at the cutting of turf in the island of Valencia, in June, 

 1837, within about four feet of the surface, and at a distance 

 from one another of about three feet. The ring, when found, 

 was as pure in the colour as when wrought, but the spear was 

 covered with a greenish scurf. In the socket of the spear 

 was a handle, of about five feet long, and of the substance of 

 a common hand stick, which went to dust when stirred. Where 

 they were found was within about forty perches of the har- 

 bour. 



Mr. Maurice O'Connell communicated the following ac- 

 count of the discovery of the other antiquities presented by 

 him to the Museum : 



" The two bronze battle-axes were found about the year 1 840, 

 in the bed of the Carhen River, barony of Iveragh, and county 

 of Kerry, within about two hundred yards of Carhen House, the 

 birth-place of my father. By his directions works were being 

 carried on to change, in some places, and confine in others, 

 the course of the river, with the intention of taking in a con- 

 siderable tract which was overflowed at high water. At one 

 place the altered course was taken through a channel between 

 a small " corcass" and the mainland. In the centre of this 



