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"22, Trinity College, Nov. 21, 1863. 



''Dear Sie, — I send you the direction of wind every second hour 

 from the commencement of the gale on 28th October, until it passed 

 away, on the 30th, 1863, and find on reference that the gale v/as in 

 Dublin October 29. 



Wind, October 28, 1863, commenced to blow from S. E. at 6 a.m. ; 

 8 A. M., S. S. E. ; 10 A. M., S. S. W. ; 12, noon, S. W. ; 2 and 4 p. m., S. W. ; 

 6p.m., S.S.W.; 8 p. M., S.W.; 10p.m. and 12 midnight, S.W. 



''October 29th, 2 and 4 a. m., S. S. W. ; 6, 8, and 10 a.m., 12, 

 noon, 2,* 4, 6, 8, and 10 p. m., 12, midnight, wind S.W. 



" October 30th, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 a. m., and 12 noon, 2 and 4 p.m., wind 

 S.W. ; 6 and 8 p. m., W.S.W.; 10 p. m. and 12 midnight, wind S.W. 



" Yours faithfully, 



" John Mettam. 



" To the Rev. Professor Haiighton.^'' 



J. B. Jukes, Esq., read a paper — 



On Ceannoges in Lough EEA.f Ey G. Heney Kinahan, Geological 

 Survey of Ireland. 



The crannoges to be described in this paper occur in Lough Eea, which 

 is situated in the parishes of L'oughrea and Killeenadeema, barony of 

 Loughrea, county of Galway, Sheet 105 of the Townland Ordnance 

 Survey, and at the east margin of Sheet 115 of the one-inch Map of 

 Ireland. 



At the south-east of the lake is a group of rocks, called "Stone Islands, 

 South;" at the east, an island, called " Stone Island, JSTorth ;" at the 

 north-east are five islands, called "Earrack, Long, Middle, Eush, and 

 Switch Islands;" at the north-west, "Elake's Island;" near the west 

 shore, " Eeed's and Shore Islands;" at the south-west, "Ash Island;" 

 and about 200 yards from the south shore is "Island M'Coo." The 

 last four have been found to be crannoges, or artificial islands. 



On looking at the Ordnance Map (Galway, Sheet 105), it will be 

 seen that within a mile of the lake there are twenty-one raths or ra- 

 heens, all of which, except two, are in the vicinity of the crannoges, two 

 of the largest being in the immediate neighbourhood of Shore Island, J 



* From llj A.M. wind = 16 miles per hour. 



fin Hardiman's "History of Galway" we find the ancient name of the town of Loughrea 

 ■was Bailie Riogh ; from which it would appear that Rea is a corruption for Riogh, and that 

 the name of the lake ought to be Lough Riogh, that is, the Royal Lake, or The Lake of 

 the Kings. This name may have been so called from one of the crannoges having been 

 the residence of the kings or chiefs of the sept that inhabited the district thereabouts ; or 

 perhaps it is much more modern, the town having been called Baillie Riogh, a.f ter 31 acJFil- 

 liam Eigh ter (Sir WilHam or Ulick De Burgo), one of its foundei-s, who declared himself 

 King of Connaght, and the lake Lough Riogh from the same. For neither of these con- 

 jectures is there documentary evidence ; but the former seems to be the most probable, as 

 in the latter case the lake would naturally have been called Bailleriogh Lough, or, to mo- 

 dernize it, Ballyrea Lough. 



J One lies between Lord Dualo's new house and Shore Island; the other, called 

 Knocknasop, a little west of Lord Dunlo's house. 



