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a quantity of theremainsof someof the lower domesticanimals, 

 at Donaghanie, in the County of Donegal ; and Mr. Wilde 

 stated that he had received a communication on the subject 

 from Mr. John Bell of Dungannon, informing him that they 

 were found on opening a cairn contained " within a circle of 

 large stones, measuring seventy yards in circumference. One 

 of the Rev. John Davis's tenants requiring building materials, 

 thoroughly laid open the tumulus, uncovering numerous se- 

 pulchral cells. These were replete with such rudely sculp- 

 tured ornaments as are frequently found in cairn chambers. 

 The vertical columns supporting large flags, shortening 

 inwards, one over the other, are about six feet in height, and 

 the roof-stones are kept in their places by the pressure of the 

 heap or cairn on their extremities. This structure is similar 

 to those near Drogheda and in Rosshire, and to that which 

 once stood on the banks of the Carron in Stirlingshire." 



From this description, the similarity of the cairn at Do- 

 naghanie to the great tumulus at New Grange will be at once 

 recognised by the Academy ; and the sculptured ornaments 

 found in both these localities, and consisting of volutes, circles, 

 and zig-zag characters, Mr. Wilde considered to be purely cha- 

 racteristic of the ancient Pagan burial places in Ireland, and per- 

 fectly distinct from that denominated Ogham writing. Of this 

 sepulchral character a fine ex- 

 ample is found upon the inte- 

 rior of one of the stones forming 

 the upright pillars in the open 

 kistvaen at Knockmany, in the 

 County Tyrone, and of which 

 the accompanying is a rude 

 sketch. The animal remains 

 found at Donaghanie consisted 

 of the bones of several domes- 

 tic animals, oxen, swine, cats, 

 dogs, sheep, together with those 

 ot geese, and other domestic fowl ; and it is interesting to dis- 



