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EEPORT ON THE OGAMS RECENTLY DISCOVEEED NEAR 

 CONNOR, CO. ANTRIM. By REY. G. R. BUICK, LL.D. 



[Read June 25, 1900.] 



The Committee appointed by the Academy to investigate these Ogams 

 carried out the woi'k entrusted to them last summer. It consisted of 

 Professor Rhys, the Rev. "W. P. Carmody, a.b., the discoverer of the 

 inscriptions, and the Rev. Dr. Biiick. They were accompanied by 

 Messrs. Robert Cochi-ane, c.e., P. M. C. Kermode, and S. K. Kirker, c.e. 

 The owner of the farm on which the inscribed stones are, Mr. Wm. 

 Hyndman, also attended, and with his sons rendered assistance. 



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Souterrain at Carncoombe, Co. Antrim, showing position of Stones with Ogams- 



The stones themselves belong to the roof of a "cave," or sonter- 

 rain, which Kes on the ridge of a low hill in the townland of Cameomb, 

 about half a mile to the south-east of the village of Connor. From 

 the appearance of the ground round about the souterrain those present 

 came to the conclusion that originally it belonged to a rath. It runs 



K.I. A. PKOC, SEE. III., VOL. VI. 



