PROCEEDINGS 



THE ROYAL lEISH ACADEMY. 



PAPERS READ BEFORE THE ACADEMY. 



I. 



OA^ THE DISCOVERT OE AN ANCIENT GRAVE, NEAR 

 ARDRAHAN, COUNTY GALWAY. 



J. MARRIS ROBERTS, B.A.I. (Dublin). 



[communicated by GEORGE COFFEY, B.E.] 



[Read Januaky 14, 1901]. 



I HA YE the honour to submit to the Members of the Royal Irish 

 Academy the following account of the discovery of an ancient grave 

 in the neighbourhood of Ardrahan, Co. Galway. During the early 

 part of January, 1900, while Mr, Stephen Tarpey was excavating 

 gravel from a newly-opened pit on his farm, which lies about 21- statute 

 miles to the N.N.W. of Ardrahan, the workmen came upon a flag, 

 standing vertically in the "face" of the pit. This fell out, disclosing 

 the grave (fig. 1). Inside the grave, which was formed of four flags 

 set on edge, with another on top acting as a cover, were a quantity 

 of bones and two urns. One of the latter, unfortunately, got broken 

 at the time, and, before the grave could be carefully examined, the 

 bones and urns were disturbed from their original positions. A 

 drawing of the urns, as shown (fig. 2), and a detailed report on the 

 bones by Dr. Brown of the Anthropoilietrical Laboratory, Trinity 

 College, Dublin, is appended. The internal dimensions of the grave 



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