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XVIII. 



iTOTES ON SOME lEISH ANTIQUITIES DEPOSITED WITH 

 THE ACADEMY. By EDWAED PERCEVAL WRIGHT, 

 M.D., President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Ireland. 



[Read December 10, 1900.] 



At a General Meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, held 

 in Dublin on the 12th of April, 1899, it was resolved— " That the 

 Council are authorized to deposit with the Royal Irish Academy a 

 number of Antiquities (scheduled), on condition that the Academy 

 consent to have the same placed on view in the Museum of the Royal 

 Irish Academy, and that they be marked or labelled as ' deposited by 

 the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Ireland.'" These conditions were 

 accepted by the Royal Irish Academy, and the specimens are now 

 handed over to the care and custody of the Academy. It has been 

 considered advisable that a short statement of the nature of the 

 Antiquities deposited should be printed ; hence the following Notes. 



With the exception of the skulls described under (10), all the 

 specimens were found outside the existing limits of the county of 

 Kilkenny. It having been thought advisable that the Museum at 

 Kilkenny should contain only those Antiquities found within the 

 county, the necessity became great for the proper preservation of the 

 remarkable Antiquities presented to the Society, which had been 

 found outside this area. 



The following notes are mostly compiled from the pages of the 

 Journal of the Society, to which references are given : — 



(1). A Sto^ie^tcith Cup-and-Ring Marhings. — This stone was found 

 on the Ponsonby Estate, in the neighboTu-hood of Youghal, about 

 twenty-five years ago, the markings on it present a very characteristic 

 example of a cup-like depression, surrounded by seven concentric 

 circles, grooved in the stone, a straight grooved channel extends 

 fi'om the central cavity through the whole of the circles, and projects 

 a little beyond the outermost circle. 



The stone is said to have been found with others which were 

 immarked ; it was bm-ied in the soil ; the material seems to be a hard 



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