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" The Treasurer reports, that there is £1052 6s. 8c?. in 3 per 

 Cent. Consols, and £1609 4s. 9d., in 3^- per Cent. Stock, the latter 

 being the Cunningham Fund. 



" (Signed,) 



" Aquilla Smith. 

 " March 16, 1842." 



April 11. 

 SIR Wm. R. HAMILTON, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Rev, Richard Butler, Robert Law, M. D., and John 

 Toleken, M. D., F. T. C. D., were elected members of the 

 Academy. 



Mr. Ferguson read a paper by the Rev. Arthur B. 

 Rowan, A. M., M.R.I. A., on the ancient Church of Kil- 

 melchedor. 



This church stands in a small hamlet and parish of the 

 same name, in the barony of Corkaguiny, county of Kerry, 

 at the foot of Brandon mountain, and near the harbour of 

 Smerwick. At the top of the neighbouring mountain is a 

 small ruined oratory, and a well of great reputed sanctity, 

 which are dedicated to St. Brandon, or Brendan, the founder 

 'of the Diocesan Cathedral of Ardfert; and the neighbour- 

 hood is further remarkable for some of those small stone- 

 roofed cells or chapelries which are supposed to belong to 

 a very remote age, and of which one that has been described 

 and engraved by Smith, in his History of Kerry, still remains 

 in complete preservation. The church derives its name from 

 St. Melchedor, who is mentioned in a catalogue of saints in 

 the book of Ballimote ; also in a MS. calendar in the Library 

 of the Academy, where, under the date May 14, he is com- 

 memorated as " Melchedar, son of Ronan, son of the King 

 of Ulster, of Kilmeilche[dor.''], on the sea shore, at Knock- 



