EDWARD PERCEVAL WRIGHT, M.A., M.D., DUB.; M.A., OXON.

(Professor of Botany, Dublin University);

Jour. R.S.A.I., vol. xxxII. (Frontispiece).

HARVARD COLLEGE

DEC 15 1910

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PREFACE.

HE Volume now presented to the Fellows and Members of the Society will be found not inferior in interest and importance to any of its predecessors. Professor Rhys, in a very exhaustive treatise on the Ogam-inscribed Stones collected by the Royal Irish Academy, and now in the Museum, Dublin, makes valuable suggestions, and throws fresh light on several disputed readings. Some noteworthy Cork and Kerry Stones are dealt with, and, in view of recent further examination, new readings and amendments are supplied. In the hope that archæologists may continue the search for Inscribed Stones, Professor Rhys gives a list of counties which, so far, have yielded no specimens of Ogmic writing. The Connor Ogams are further noticed and illustrated by the Rev. Dr. Buick. Favourable conditions attended a re-reading of some of the stones, with satisfactory results. In dealing with a Cross now preserved at Connor Rectory, Dr. Buick remarks that, in view of the opinion advanced as to the Ogam and High Cross areas being mutually exclusive each of the other, this ancient fragment is specially interesting. Among the "Miscellanea" will be found an account, by Lord Walter Fitz Gerald, of the recent discovery of an Ogam-stone near Maynooth. Except Killeen-Cormac, this is the only place in the County of Kildare where an Ogam-stone is known to exist.

Mr. P. J. O'Reilly deals with the Coronation Stone in Westminster Abbey, and the Lia Fail at Tara, in a Paper which is of peculiar interest in this the Coronation year of His Majesty King Edward VII. Dr. Buick writes on the Carn known as the "Giant's Grave," Loughloughan, Co. Antrim, giving some account of food-vessels found here. He also describes an Urn with pierced ears, as if for suspension-a type uncommon in Ireland.

The subject of Stone Implements finds an exponent in Mr. E. Crofton Rotheram, whose discoveries in the County of Meath are described and fully illustrated. Canon ffrench deals with some Bone Pins from Ballinderry Lake, Co. Westmeath; while Sir T. Grattan Esmonde gives a short account of a Grinding-stone of the most ancient pattern known in Ireland, and of a Stone Lamp and Cinerary Urn found in Co. Wexford. A pair of Brooches and Chains of the Viking period, found near Arklow, recently acquired by the National Museum, Dublin, are described by Mr. George Coffey. The brooches-a most important acquisition are made in gilt bronze, and are of the Scandinavian tortoise pattern.

Mr. Robert Cochrane, our Honorary Secretary, contributes a Paper on Broighter, Limavady, and on the find of Gold Ornaments there in 1896. As the contribution of a skilled archæologist to the discussion about these ornaments, the Paper is a highly important one, which ought to have a large share in enlightening public opinion on a most interesting question.

Mr. F. Elrington Ball gives a further instalment of his History of the County Dublin. Rathmichael,