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Conn of the Hundred Battles. He died a.d. 266, after reigning 

 forty years. The Four Masters tell us that it was he who 

 composed Teagusc-na-Righ, to preserve manners, morals, and 

 government in the kingdom. He was a famous author in laws, 

 synchronisms, and history, for it was he that established law, 

 rule, and direction for each science, and for each covenant, 

 according to propriety, and it is his laws that governed all that 

 adhered to them to the present time. It was this Cormac, son 

 of Art, also, that collected the chroniclers of Ireland to 

 Teamhair (Tara), and ordered them to write the chronicles of 

 Ireland in one book, which was named " The Psalter of 

 Teamhair." In that book were entered the coeval exploits and 

 synchronisms of the kings of Ireland, with the kings and empe- 

 rors of the world, and of the provinces, with the monarchs of 

 Ireland. In it was also written what the monarchs of Ireland 

 were entitled to receive from the provincial kings, and the 

 rents and dues of the provincial kings from their subjects, from 

 the noble to the subaltern. In it also were described the boun- 

 daries and meares of Ireland from shore to shore, from the 

 province to the cantred, from the cantred to the townland, and 

 from the townland to the traigth of land. This monarch was 

 one of our earliest historians, and the book of the Teagusc-na- 

 Righ, or kingly advice, is a remarkable production for so early 

 a period. It is in the form of a conversation between King 

 Cormac and his son Calistre, and it seems to have been com- 

 posed for the purpose of giving this son such advice as would 

 fit him for the high station he was to occupy. 



Several very interesting extracts from this most important 

 book were given, after which 



Mr. Swanston read brief notes on some rare mosses commu- 

 nicated by Rev. H. W. Lett (Ardmore), of which the following 

 is the substance : — I have now the pleasure of laying before the 

 Club notice of my having collected, whilst moss-hunting in the 

 Mourne Mountains, two mosses not hitherto observed in Ire- 

 land. The first of these is Thuidium recognitum (Hed.), a strik- 

 ing species, and easily distinguished from the common form. 



