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XL. 
OlS" A SEEIES OP COLOURED DEAWIirGS OE SCEIEED 
STO^S IN THE LOUGH CEEW CAIEITS, EY THE 
LATE O. Y. DU JN'OYEE. WITH EEMAEXS EY W. 
EEAZEE, E.E.C.S.L 
[Eead April 28, 1890.] 
An extensive series of coloured drawings, made by the late George 
Y. Du Noyer, representing stones with remarkable sculpturings dis- 
covered in a group of Cairns situated on the summits of the Lough 
Crew Hills, County Meath, came into my possession some time since. 
They were intended to illustrate a work, giving full descriptions of 
the Cairns, by Eugene Conwell, M.E.I.A., who had the good fortune 
to discover them in the year 1863. He read three Eapers to this 
Academy relating to their history on 23rd May and 14th i^ovember, 
1864, and on the 26th Eebruary, 1865; and in July, 1867, Mr. Du 
Noyer was engaged to delineate them with a view to their future 
publication in extenso — a project that was never carried out owing 
to Mr. Conwell's removal to the South of Ireland, and his subsequent 
death. The value of Mr. Conwell's discovery was enhanced by these 
Cairns having escaped the notice of the Government surveyors, who 
should have recorded their presence on the Ordnance Maps. 
Mr. Conwell in one of his Eapers enumerated and gave a map 
representing 30 distinct Tumuli scattered along the crests of these 
Lough Crew Hills, all of which were carefully explored by him, and 
their stones enumerated in detail whenever he found they presented 
scribings. 
Another of his Eapers describes the Cairn he marked T on the 
map, the principal one of this group which he was induced to designate as 
the Tomb of Ollahm Eodhla, believing the entire group represented the 
missing burial-ground of Tailten, the graves of the Eoyal XJltonian race. 
This Academy, in its Eroceedings,^ 12th Eebruary, 1872, has figured all 
1 Proc, 2nd Ser., PoHte Lit. and Antiq., Yol. i., p. 72. 
