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The tripartite Life of St. Patrick tells us that " St. Patrick himself 

 here founded a monastery, and placed over it his honoured disciple 

 Justus." Tradition has it that here were both a monastery and a nun- 

 nery, celebrated for the sanctity of their inhabitants ; and that they so 

 continued up to 1641, when Robin Ormsby, of Tobarvaddy (Cobap a 

 ma'oaig (" the Wolf's Well"), one of Coote's most active lieutenants, 

 and who was usually called l^ibbepc na JliSS^ipca, or Jingling Ro- 

 bert, from the clattering of his coat of mail and his horse trappings, 

 expelled the monks and nuns, and levelled the ancient structures to the 

 ground, and verily left not one stone upon another ! so that these two 

 stones alone remain to testify that they once were there. 



Whether I may be right in my guess as to the date, or not, it is cer- 

 tain that these stones are not the production of modern times ; and they 

 combine to prove the same fact, that many celebrated for their sanctity 

 once dwelt here, and were interred in Tuerty church-yard. 



Dr. Petrie made some remarks in explanation, and gave a different 

 reading and analysis of the inscriptions. Reference being made to Dr. 

 Stokes regarding the representation of a fish on one of these stones, he 

 observed that, in a recent visit to Prague, he found this symbol very 

 prevalent on the tombstones of the Jewish cemetery in that city. 



The Academy then adjourned. 



MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1864. 

 The Yery Rev. Chaeles Geaves, D. D., President, in the Chair. 



The Right Hon. the Earl of Charlemont ; Right Hon. the Earl of Do- 

 noughmore ; Charles H. Eoot, B. A. ; G. Charles Garnett, B. A. ; J. J, 

 Digges La Touche, B. A. ; and Major Robert Poore ; were elected 

 members of the Academy. 



Edward Blythe, Esq. (with the permission of the Academy), read a 

 paper " On the existing Species of Stag (Ulaphus).^^ 



The Rev. Samuel Haughton, M. D., Eellow of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, read the following paper : — 



JN'oTEs ox Animal Mechajsttcs. 



]^o. l.~On the Muscular Meclianimi of the Ilip Joint in Man. 



Introduction.— In the course of the following notes on the muscular 

 mechanism of the joints in man and other animals, I shall have occasion 

 to use certain principles, or postnlates as I prefer to call them, which 

 are not as yet employed generally by anatomical writers ; and for this 

 reason I shall here give a few words of explanation respecting them. 



These postulates are two in number, and are as follows : — 



