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would command my attention and support, even if I did not hold the 

 official position of Visitor to the Academy. 



Though I have not yet had the opportunity of becoming personally 

 acquainted with your Museum and Library, I am well aware of the im- 

 portant and interesting character of those collections ; and the care and 

 assiduity with which you have gathered and preserved the relics of by- 

 gone ages are at once a subject of congratulation, and a bright example 

 to all who study the history of the ancient races of mankind. 



I shall rejoice if my connexion with the Academy should enable me 

 to afford that encouragement to its labours which you derived from my 

 accomplished predecessor ; but I am conscious that my own literary ac- 

 quirements are far too modest to entitle them to the commendation of so 

 learned and distinguished a Society. 



G. Henry Kinahan, P. R. G. S. I., Senior Geologist of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Ireland, read the following Paper : — 



Notes on Ceannoges in Ballin Lough. 

 Ballin Lough is situated in the parish of Ballinakill, barony of 

 Leitrim, county of Gal way, Sheet 125, and on the junction of Sheets 

 116 and 125 of the Ordnance Inch Map of Ireland. It lies a little more 

 than half a mile south-east of Marble Hill, the seat of Sir T. J. Burke, 

 Bart. 



ballin lough (copied from the ordnance six-inch map). 

 Fig. 1. 



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In this lough are four islands ; and, as they have no local names, we 

 shall call them in these Notes as follows: — No. 1, or North Island ; 



