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Seaton F. Milligan, Esq., read a Paper entitled 

 WITH THE ROYAL HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEO- 

 LOGICAL SOCIETY AT LIMERICK. 



RECENT ANTIQUARIAN EXPLORATIONS, WITH 

 SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ANCIENT IRISH 

 HOT-AIR BATH. 



NOTES ON A CARVED-OAK TUDOR PANEL. 



On Tuesday, 16th July, a small party of members of the Royal 

 Historical and Archaeological Society from Ulster, consisting 

 of one lady and four gentlemen, proceeded to Dublin, and from 

 thence to Limerick, to take part in the proceedings at the 

 Summer Meeting of the Society. Three of these were from 

 Belfast, one from Enniskillen, and one from Omagh. We 

 arrived on Wednesday 17th, at 1.30, and had just time, after 

 depositing our things at the hotel, to reach the Athenaeum, 

 where the opening meeting was to be held, at two o'clock. 

 Lord James Butler, the President of the Society, had not 

 arrived, owing to an unforeseen detention of the train, and the 

 chair was taken, in his absence, by Mr. Maurice Lenahan, J. P., 

 Vice-President, a venerable old gentleman, and well known as 

 the author of a most valuable history of the city of Limerick. 

 After a short meeting, at which a few unimportant papers were 

 read, we adjourned till eight o'clock p.m. Meantime, it was 

 arranged we should proceed to the Cathedral of St. Mary's, the 

 Dean having consented to show us over the building and 

 explain many interesting details concerning the sacred edifice. 



St. Mary's, which is now the Protestant Cathedral of 

 Limerick, was founded by Donald More O'Brien, King of 

 Thomond, in the year 1 179. It is a plain Gothic building of 

 massive appearance, with many historical associations. The 

 exterior is in fairly good repair, but the interior has a rather 

 neglected look. It contains many interesting memorials of the 

 past, amongst which is the carved lid of a stone coffin of King 

 Donald ; also, the tomb of Bishop Donal O'Brien, dated 121 7, 



