422 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. discourse by Mr. Markland, " On the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England, as it has been affected by the taste and feeling of past and present times." Antiquaries of Scotland. — December 11. An account of a Burgh or
- Pict's House" in the Orkneys was read by ilr. Farrer. Mr. Laing, in a
letter to Lord Murray, urged the necessity of taking precautions for the preservation of the Cathedral and remains at lona, a subject to which the attention of the Institute had been called. See p. 293 in this volume. It was stated that the walls of the Abbey church, St. Orau's chapel and the Nunnery, require support, which might be effected at a small expense. Mr. Cosmo Iiines gave an account of the Crosier of St. Moluach, the pro- perty of the Duke of Argyll : a little estate in the isle of Lismore had been long held by the service of keeping this Bachul, or episcopal stall'. Mr. Joseph Robertson mentioned other Scottish Crosiers, especially that of St. Kentigern, long kept at Ripon. Mr. Christie communicated an appeal regarding a Collection of casts of National Sculptures. A large stone urn found in a barrow near the standing stones of Stennis, and other anticpiities from the Orkneys, were presented to the Museum. Kilkenny Ancn.KoLOGiCAL Society. — At the Meeting on Sept. 20, a large number of Ogham inscriptions were brought under notice, two of them being examples hitherto unnoticed. Mr. Nevins, of Watcrford, presented to the Museum a good example of this kind of monument, the only one which has been found in the County AVexford. It is an oblong water-worn boulder, presenting no angle to supply the medial line, usually found in these inscriptions. It was found on the beach under a ruined church on the promontory of Hook, having probably been thrown down with the greater part of the burial ground, whioh had been undermined by the sea. Dr. Graves has had an engraving of this inscrii)tion prepared for his forth- coming work on Oghams, and he had suggested, from the rounded form of the stone, that it had served as the pillow of the anchorite of the neigh- bouring church, and had been inscribed as the memorial on his grave. Another example, now first noticed, is a stone inscribed on both edges, and built into the east gable-end of St. Declan's oratory, Ardmore, a building assigned to the fifth century. Mr. Prim gave an account of some vestiges of ancient street architecture recently found in Kilkenny. Mr. Edward Iloare gave an account of an inedited Ilibernu-Danish coin found in breaking up a " rath," or circular earthwork, near Fermoy. Mr. Graves gave an account of the remarkable discovery of gold ornaments in the county Clare, noticed in this Journal, p. 184, ante, and he read a Memoir on the Promontory of Hook, county Wexford, a site of considerable interest to the antiquary. The first and second parts of a third volunio of the Journal of the Society have been issued to the Sub.scribcrs. An addition to the numerous works on Provincial Dialect has very recently apjiearcd, the result of twont}' years of careful observation, — " A Glossary of Xortliainpt(jnHliire Words and Plivasi'S, with e.xaniidos of their colNxpiial use," by Miss IJakc-r, the sister of the late talt-uled historian of the county. The archai.sms and local peculiarities of language here brought togcthi-r arc very numerous, amounting to upwards of fjOdO, of which more than 2000 have not bcL-n included in ])n(viou8 jmhlications of the kind. Miss l!aker huH given many illuhtrativc (juotations from the dranuitists ami other writcrfl, demonstrating the utility of i'rovincial Glossaries in elucidating our early literature. She has incoq)orated also her collections regarding local cutttoms, proverbial Hayings, and jioi»ular antiquities in general.
