386 Royal Irish Academy. 



Council, 21st February, 1898. 



[Report of Special Committee read.] 



"The Secretary of Council brought up a series of Memoranda in 

 reference to the ahore matter, and the Council on deliberation resolved 

 — that the Committee -which has ali'eady reported on the -find of gold 

 ornaments in the north-west of Ireland be instructed to prepare a 

 Memorial in. the name of the Council to be transmitted to the Lord 

 Lieutenant, embodying the substance of the above Memoranda with 

 such additions as the Committee on consideration may deem desirable, 

 and that the Committee be authorised to forward the Memorial on 

 behalf of the Council." 



7tli Marcli, 1898. 



Memorial forwarded to the Lord Lieutenant. 



Tlie Text of this Memorial will le found in Minutes of Pro- 

 ceedings {2W- 287-291), Royal Irish Academy, vol. iv., 8rd Series^ 

 and as ^A])2^&ndix III^ {^fage 40) of the Report of the Treasury 

 Committee. 



Council, 14th. Marcli, 1898. 



Eead the following letter : — 



Chief Seceetailt's Office, 



DtTBLiisr Castle, llth March, 1898. 

 [4407.] 



Sib, 



"With reference to your letter of the 7th instant, I am directed by 

 the Lord Lieutenant to state that His Excellency observes that the 

 Memorial from the Council of the Eoyal Irish Academy enclosed by 

 you relates, in particular, to certain gold objects acq[uired by a Mr. 

 Hobert Lay of Cork, which were found by a ploughman "near the 

 sea on the north-west coast of Ireland." 



His Excellency would be glad if the Council could give him some 

 more precise particulars, showing, if possible, the county in which the 

 articles were found ; the date of the finding ; the name and address of 



