Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . YAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND graveyard which was destroyed by the action of the waves morethan eighty years ago. The dimensions are length 4 feet 6 inches,breadth 3 feet, thickness 8 inches ; and the material purple-slate,a fine-grained stone of great density and weight. The perforation—3 inches in diameter at the centre, enlarging to 5J inches at thefront surface and 4 inches at the back—is placed at a distance of21 inches from the upper end, and is about 3J inches nearer to oneedge than to the other. The illustration (Plate XV
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . YAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND graveyard which was destroyed by the action of the waves morethan eighty years ago. The dimensions are length 4 feet 6 inches,breadth 3 feet, thickness 8 inches ; and the material purple-slate,a fine-grained stone of great density and weight. The perforation—3 inches in diameter at the centre, enlarging to 5J inches at thefront surface and 4 inches at the back—is placed at a distance of21 inches from the upper end, and is about 3J inches nearer to oneedge than to the other. The illustration (Plate XV, fig. 2) showsit placed upright against the wall of the graveyard.—HenryS. Crawford. Holed-Stone at Newtown, near Trim.—The sketch showsa holed-stone which has not, so far as I know, been hitherto is placed on a grave about 60 feet north of the nearest angle ofthe east wall of the old cathedral at Newtown. The monument is a rough limestone flag, 16 inches in breadthand 5 inches in thickness ; it stands 2 feet above ground, and the. Holed Stone at Newtown, near Trim. upper angles are slightly rounded. The perforation is 4| inchesbelow the top, and tapers from about 2J inches at each face of thestone to half that size in the centre, thus exhibiting the usual shapeof such openings. The people of the district do not seem to attribute any remarkablequalities to it.—Henry S. Crawford. Erratum Accounts of a Dublin Harpsichord Maker (vol. xliv, p. 338).—On p. 340, the price of Hon. Mrs Herberts piano should be£20 9s. 6d. ; the figure £30 12s. 7}d. is properly the total of theaccount. Comparison of the prices of neiv instruments shows thatthe average price of a harpsichord was £30 5s. 8d. ; of a piano£17 12s. 7d. The only new spinet cost £11 7s. 6d. V. E. Smyth. Plate. XV] [To face page 15G
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