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Royal Irish Academy. Many others are preserved in the 

 Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College, Dublin, such as the 

 "Book of Lismore," "Book of Fermoy," the "Book of St. 

 Mary," and others that have>J no special names. Trinity 

 College, Dublin, has over 140 volumes of manuscript Irish 

 literature, many of which are ^written on vellum. Irish 

 manuscripts are to be found in the Imperial Library, Paris; 

 Library of Milan, Library of Ostend, Francis College, Louvain ; 

 Burgundian Library, Brussels ; College of St. Isidore, Rome ; 

 md the Vatican Library. 



The Latin MSS. from Glosses of which Zeus compiled his 

 u Grammatica Celtica " were — (1) "Codex of Priscian," Library 

 of St. Gall, Switzerland ; (2) " Codex of St. Paul's Epistle," 

 Library, University of Wurtzburg ; (3) " Latin Commentary 

 on the Psalms," in Ambrosian Library, Milan ; (4) " Codex of 

 Venerable Bede's Works," at Carlsruhe ; (5) " A Second Codex 

 of Priscian," at Carlsruhe ; (6) a miscellaneous codex preserved 

 at St. Gall ; (7) a codex preserved at Cambray. 



In a speech of the late Lord O'Hagan, at Queen's College, 

 Belfast, *' he regretted that there was not a professor in that 

 college to train up future O'Currys and O'Donovans, so that 

 the remnants of our old liteiature, scattered in mouldering 

 manuscripts through the libraries of Europe from Copenhagen 

 to the Vatican, might be arrested from destruction, and made 

 amenable not only for the glory of Ireland, but for the welfare 

 of the world." 



I conclude by mentioning that the u Gaelic Journal " is now 

 published monthly. At present it contains a system of self- 

 instruction in Gaelic. Those who look forward to joining our 

 class next year would do well to avail themselves in the 

 meantime ot the lessons in it. 



T. G. Foley, Member, then read an interesting fairy tale in 

 Irish. 



Francis Joseph Bigger, M.R.I.A., Honorary Secretary, then 

 read the following paper on Local Names of Places : — 



One would think the plantation of our district in the 16th 



