Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . d. The Society recorded thewitch trials at Island Magee and then (as if scared by the reversionto old-world darkness) it recorded nothing further. We shall hearof the brother of its secretary, nearly half a century later, as the firstto attempt to elucidate the origin of our forts. The Society then (asstill, in the Royal Irish Academy) studied natural science, topography(or as they more exactly described it chorography), archaeology, folk-lore, and statistics—no narrow field to work. The study of forts hadcommenced ; 0 Flaherty told the
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . d. The Society recorded thewitch trials at Island Magee and then (as if scared by the reversionto old-world darkness) it recorded nothing further. We shall hearof the brother of its secretary, nearly half a century later, as the firstto attempt to elucidate the origin of our forts. The Society then (asstill, in the Royal Irish Academy) studied natural science, topography(or as they more exactly described it chorography), archaeology, folk-lore, and statistics—no narrow field to work. The study of forts hadcommenced ; 0 Flaherty told the legend and described the remainsof Dun Aengusa, if briefly; Brigdall noted Bealboru Fort in Clare, in1684. Dineley did work not dissimilar to that of the writersof tours like Bishop Dive Downes 1699-1700, Isaac Butler1745, Bishop Pococke 1750, Gabriel Beranger 1770, Caesar Otway, 1 Journal, vol. iv, pp. 447-458. 2 MSS. Trinity College, Dublin, i, 1, 1-2 ; for the contents of the first volume,see Journal, vol. xxix, p. 429. Plate 1] [To face page 7 Mm. j. \ /fuse ?**4l fa/fritY ?<St l/t/MM/C /u<i<r,T,// tint SemP V1 M* Si/it, //it Pij ? • utm Vx/, e & TUOM .// //:, 6 f •V b 6 0 LHUYDS PLAN OF NEW GRANGE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS 7 Lady Chatterton, and Mr and Mrs Hall. These works are often fullof notes of interest, otherwise unrecorded, but none of their writersfounded a school, and the earlier works, down to 1800, layforgotten in manuscript for many years. Bronze Age (or, as they were at first considered, Danish )ornaments and monuments began to be studied. The first importantcommunication on our prehistory was that of Edward Lhuyd,the keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, on Newgrange in 1699. Hisaccount, for exactness and sound deduction, stands far ahead ofmuch written by antiquaries of repute during the two followingcenturies. Unlike Dr Molyneux, he argues that the tomb was mucholder than the Danish period, from the Roman coins found in it and,judging from its carvings, t
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