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On the seemingly Latinized form of the inflections, and the feminine 

 genitive in i, the writer desires to submit the matter to more competent 

 philologists ; and, with regard to the probable age of the cave, and the 

 appearance it presents of having had two entrances, refers to Keating' s 

 tract on "Early Irish Modes of Sepulture," from the Tri Biorr-ghaethe 

 an Bhais (" Irish Ossianic Society's Transactions," vol. i., p. 63, etseq.), 

 and in particular to the old poem there cited — 



peapc aen oopuip b'piop 50 naoi, 

 peapc 50 n-06 ooippio bo mnaoi. 



A grave of one door for a man of science : 

 A grave of two doors for a woman. 



Mr. Eugene A. Conwell read a paper (in continuation) " On the 

 Ancient Remains at Sliabh-na-Callighe." 



Mr. H. F. Hore, by permission of the Academy, read a paper " On 

 Banshees." 



The Academy adopted an Address to His Excellency the Lord Lieu- 

 tenant, brought up from the Council by the Secretary. 



STATED MEETING.— Wednesday, November 30, 1864. 

 The Very Rev. Charles Graves, D.D., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary reported that the Address of the Academy to His Ex- 

 cellency the Lord Lieutenant, adopted on the 24th of November, was 

 presented by the President and Members, at the Viceregal Lodge, on 

 Thursday last, the 24th inst. 



"Whereupon it was 



Resolved, — That the Address to the Lord Lieutenant, together with 

 His Excellency's Answer, be printed in the Proceedings. 



Address to His Excellency the Lord Baron "Wodehouse, Lord Lieute- 

 nant General ', and General Governor of Lr eland. 



May it Please Your Excellency, — "We, the President and Mem- 

 bers of the Royal Irish Academy, respectfully desire to present to Your 

 Excellency oar hearty congratulations upon your arrival in Ireland as 

 the representative of our most gracious Sovereign. 



In virtue of your high office, Your Excellency becomes, under our 

 Charter, the Visitor of the Academy. We are thus privileged, as a 

 body incorporated for the promotion of the study of Science, Polite 



* Since making the above communication, the writer has been informed by Richard 

 R. Brash, Esq., Sunday's Well, Cork, that Mr. Brash, accompanied by J. Windele, Esq., 

 Cork, observed the Ogham inscription on the stone marked A, on a visit to Rathcroghan 

 in the year 1852. 



