xxxii 



Ordnance survey, Parliamentary Commit- 

 tee on, extracts from report of, 82 ; re- 

 mains of Sliabh-na-Caillighe unnoticed 

 on map of, 43, 359 ; subsequently 

 mapped by, 50, 359. 



O'Reilly, family, their contest with the 

 O'Farrells, 154. 



O'Ronan, family of, 187- 



O'Rooney, family of, 187. 



O'Rourke, Rev. John, elected a Member, 

 539. 



Orthanach, two persons of the name, 348. 



O'Squirin, family of, 186. 



Ostrich, the anatomy of, Mr. A. Macalister 



on, 1 ; muscular mechanism of the leg of, 



Rev. Dr. Haughton on, 50. 

 O'Sullivan, Daniel, elected a Member, 325. 

 Otter, the, muscular anatomy of, 511; 



habits of, 512. 

 Oughaval, derivation of the name, 231. 

 Owneygat, i. e. Cat's Cave, atRathcroghan, 



160. 



Patrick, St., his book On the joys of hea- 

 ven and pains of hell, 185. 



Patrick's Island, near Skerries, old church 

 of, 432. 



Patrickstown, moat of, 376. 



Perigord, cave of, remains found in, 267 : 

 the 'CavernesdePerigord' presented, 267. 



Perrault, Mons., referred to, 1, 2, 3. 



Petrie, George, L.L.D., a member of Coun- 

 cil (Com. of Antiqq.), 221 ; Vice-Presi- 

 dent, 221; his antiquarian essays, 330; 

 his death, 383, adjournment of Aca- 

 demy on, 325 ; eloge of, by Dean 

 Graves, 325 ; biographical memoir of, 

 326 ; obituary notice of, 383 ; Lord 

 Talbot's mention of, 390 ; sixteen ori- 

 ginal views by, presented, 530. 



Petty, Sir William, unpublished essay on 

 Ireland by, 224. 



Phalanger, the, muscular anatomy of, 483. 



Phillips, Major Paul W., his observations 

 on rainfall at St. Helena, 129. 



Phoenix Park, origin of the name, 249. 



Physicians, Irish families furnishing, 187. 



Pillar stones, at Killeen-Cormaic, 254, 

 255, 257. 



Pipes, reed, Indian, 110, 112. 



Plana, Baron Giovanni, death of, 217. 



Plunket MS., "A light to the blind," 550. 



Plural, Irish names with English forms 

 of, 244. 



Poem, Latin, in Lord Talbot de Malahide's 

 collection, 354. 



Poetry, Irish families professors of, 187. 



Poole's Cavern, vestiges of human habita- 

 tion in, 536. 



Poongi, Indian snake charmer's pipe, 112, 



Poyning's law, first Parliament held under, 

 223. 



President, the Very Rev. Charles Graves, 

 D. D., 220 ; Lord Talbot de Malahide, 

 388. 



Preston's Gate, Athy, view of, 440. 

 Prick to the Conscience, a book, 185. 

 Primacy of Armagh, original copy of King's 



Essay on, presented, 336. 

 Proceedings. See under Academy. 

 Professorships of the Celtic language in 



Queen's University, suppressed, 219. 

 Projectiles, gun, 65. 

 Pukhwaj, an Indian drum, 116. 

 Pupa or pope, of Ara, St. Aelchu, 188. 



Quaternion Calculus, the, Sir "William R. 



Hamilton on some recent geometrical 



results of, 106. 

 Qraguismu, an Ogham inscription, 169. 

 QrittalegiQritumah, an Ogham inscription, 



169. 



Races, horse, ancient Irish, 350. 

 Rafn, Charles Christian, death of, 217. 

 Rainfall at St. Helena, observations upon, 

 126. 



Rairend, or Mullach-Reelan, 256. 



Rath, pronunciation of the word, in town- 

 land names, 226. 



Rathcroghan, remains of, described, 160; 

 cave at, 162; Ogham inscription in, 

 160. 



Rathkenny, inscribed cromleac near, 541. 

 Rawlinson, Dr., purchaser of some of 



Ware's MSS., 184. 

 Rechra, gen. Rechrain, now Lambay, 189. 

 Reeves, Rev. William, D.D., member of 



Council (Com. of Antiqq.), 221, 389; 



Secretary, 221, 389 ; a bull of Innocent 



IV. exhibited by, 40. 

 Relig-na-ree, a cemetery at Rathcroghan, 



160. 



Report. See under Academy. 



Rhea, the, muscular anatomy of, 497. 



Rhinoceros, dissection of, by Rev. Dr. 



Haughton, 515; muscular anatomy of, 



515. 



Ronan, tombstone of, at Clonmacnois, 159. 

 Ross Castle, 155. 



Rotatory powers of fluids, mode of compar- 

 ing, 530. 



Round tower of Eanagh, on Aranmore, 424. 



S, the letter, sometimes an adventitious 



prefix, 241. 

 Sagran, inscription of, 167. 

 St. Helena, evaporation of a water surface 



at, Dr. Haughton on, 126. 



