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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1863. 



The Vehy Rev. Chahles Geates, D. D., President, in the Chair. 



John Eibton Garstin, Esq., and John H. Tyrrell, Esq., were elected 

 members of the Academy. 



Mr. George V. Du IS'oyer presented the following drawings : — 



Catalogue relating to IN'inett-pive Drawings erom Original 

 Sketches of various objects of Antiquity. 



'No. 1. Yiew looking north of the Kistvaen on the south flank of Eree 

 Hill, townland of Ballybrittas, county of Wexford, near Enniscorthy.— 

 Ordnance Survey Map, ISTo. 31, 2nd quarter. 

 jN'o. 2. View of the same, looking west. 



'No. 3. Plan of the same, showing the side and covering stone. 



No. 4. Plan and section of a square earthen rath, in the townland 

 of Craane, parish of Clonmore, on the northern flank of Bree Hill, and 

 close to the Enniscorthy road. This structui^e is one of the most perfect 

 of its class which I have observed in the county of Wexford. It con- 

 sists of a deep fosse, about 22 feet wide, having a narrow platform and 

 high parapet wall around its outer face, which is sloped like the glacis 

 of a modern fort. The inner enclosure is bounded by a thick earthen 

 wall, and measures about 80 feet square. 



Works such as this are rather common over the eastern or lowland 

 portion of the county of Wexford, extending from near Arklow on the 

 north, to the Waterford estuary on the south. 



In the townland of Myler's Park, a few miles to the south-east of 

 New Eoss, there is one of these earthen works which measures about 

 170 feet square internally, and the walls are protected by a massive 

 semicircular bastion at each angle, being in fact an earthen model 

 of an Anglo-I^orman castle. I have an idea that raths of this cha- 

 racter are not as old as those which are circular in formj and as the 

 county of Wexford was the territory which the Anglo- Normans first 

 gained possession of in Ireland, they may have constructed those square 

 earthen works as camps, or forts of occupation, for such was certainly 

 the rath in Myler's Park. If they are native structures, the Irish may 

 have copied this form of defensive work from their invaders. Ee this as 

 it may, it is well to direct attention to the occurrence of square earthen 

 raths over the county of Wexford. The rath which I have illustrated 

 is not engraved on the Ordnance Survey Map. 



No. 5. Yiew of the group of stones at the ancient grave at Tivoria, 

 half a mile east of the village of Dunquin, to the west of Dingle. Tivo- 

 ria means the house or resting place of Mary ; and this spot is popularly 

 recognised over the Irish-speaking districts of the whole south-west of 

 Ireland, as being the farthest or most remote grave or ''house of rest." 

 If by this is implied the most westerly place of interment, the old idea 



