arms was to be had. I inquired of the old inhabitants who were present when Griffin's house was being built what had happened it, but those who were then present could tell me nothing of the fate of the stone, and I left the spot in despair of being ever able to find it. My belief was that it had been destroyed.

A few days after my visit to Gallstown, I was told by one party at Waterford that the stones of Griffin's house had been purchased by a blacksmith named Mullowney, who burned them into lime, but others said that they had been purchased by Mr. Jones, of Mullinabro, who used them in building a stable, and Edmond Murphy (nicknamed Ned the Man) the mason who built Mr. Jones' stable, stated that he could point out the very part of the wall where he put the stone exhibiting the Gall Burcach's arms, which was then covered with rough casting. I wrote to Captain, now General Larcom, R. Engineers, requesting of him to ask the officer, who was surveying this district for the Ordnance Survey, if he could get this stone removed to the old Church of Gallskille; and Captain Henry Tucker, who then presided over the Ordnance Survey of this district, most promptly complied with my request, as appears by his letter, dated 3rd Aug., 1841, in which he writes:

"I called on Mr. Jones; he will let me remove the mortar, and I think it is probable he would let me take down the stone if I were to ask him. Will Mr. O'Donovan like to have the stone placed up in the wall of the old chapel, which is situate about one and a half miles north of Mr. Jones's house?

"To T. A. Larcom, &c."

To which I replied—

"Captain Tucker will for ever oblige me by removing this stone to the old chapel of Gaulskill. But should Mr. Jones be unwilling to let it be removed from the wall, I will be well pleased by getting a careful drawing of the arms, letters, and date upon it. I hope the masons have not mutilated it. Mr. Patrick Donovan, of the Ferrybank, builder, &c., will remove the mortar for Captain Tucker, and also remove the stone to Gaulskill, if Mr. Jones will allow it to be removed."

To this Captain Tucker replied:

"Waterford, 15th Sept., 1841. "I send a copy of the coat of arms on the Gallstown stone for Mr. O'Donovan, and request you will have the goodness to forward it to him. "The stone is built into the wall of the out-offices of Mr. Jones's house (Mullinabro), about thirty feet from the ground, and Mr. Jones would not allow it to be removed.

"The stone is now on one side, i. e. the length, or nineteen inches side, is with the horizon. It is now a corner-stone.

"There is not any date on it; the stone was formerly a keystone of an arch, and the mason states that the date which was inscribed, as in the sketch, was knocked off in squaring the stone.

"The letters E. D. are evidently of a more recent date' than the coat of arms.

"The different depths of shading show proportionally the depth to which the parts of the stone have been cut away.

"Yours very truly,

“HENRY TUCKER."

It will be observed that the De Burgo arms and crest on this stone, Fig. 2, (see Plate facing page 103 ), exactly agree with the central shield in the arms of the Count Gall Von Bourckh of Austria, who was the brother of this Walter Gall Burke, who was married to Ellise Denn. The crest of this family, a lion rampant holding a cross, is different from that of every other branch of the Burkes, for they bear the catamountin. I have not seen the arms of Den on any tomb or castle in the county of Kilkenny. A branch of this family of Denn possessed Tory Hill (Sliabh Ua g Cruinn), and several townlands adjoining it. The last head of this branch was Edmond Denn, the Tory, whose bed is shown in a cave in this hill. I am also descended from this Tory, so that my Milesian blood is very much mixed with that of the invaders. The late Amias Denn, of Garrandarragh, Esq., was the senior representative of a branch of this family. His son, Dr. Denn, who lived at Carrick-on-Suir in 1840, 1841, was the only member of this family I could hear of, the last time I visited my native county.

1 Recent date.-The original letters, E. D., standing for Ellise Denne, were struck off by the mason who built Griffin's house, about the year 1798; but, after he had them struck off, the parish priest was passing by, who, observing how the antiquarian value of the stone was destroyed, told the mason that he had acted wrong in mutilating the stone, and he ordered him to cut the letters E. D. as well as he could, which the rude tradesman complied with, and hence the difference between the letters E. D. at the bottom of the shield, and W. G. at the top. The date was struck off at the same time, but never restored.

The sculpture is very rude, but the intention was evidently to represent the wellknown De Burgo bearing (per a cross gules or and vair counterchanged) impaling that of Denne (a fesse dancette between two mullets). The first of the Den family who came to Ireland was Sir William Denne, who was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1260, but no consecutive pedigree of the family has been compiled by any of our genealogists. The Dennes of Grennan, near Thomastown, the best known family of that name in the county of Kilkenny, would seem from their armorial bearings to have had no connex. ion with that of Ellise Denne, the wife of

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Walter Gall Burke, of Gallstown. Grennan Dennes, according to the volume of "Kilkenny Heraldry," compiled temp. Jac. II., and purchased by the writer at the recent sale in London of the Heraldic and Genealogical MSS. of the late Sir William Betham, bore "gules, three lions rampant sable, a chief of the last ;" above this shield is written "Den of Gre enan Com Kilken"," and underneath, where the page is much worn away, may be read "Mr Marg' Lawles al's Den dyed the 1st of

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We learn from Fitzpatrick's "Life and Times of Lord Cloncurry," p. 7, that Richard, son of Walter Lawless, of Talbot's Inch, near the city of Kilkenny, married Margaret, daughter of Patrick Den, of Grennan, and died in 1670. It is plain that Ellise Denne's descent cannot be traced from this stock. The Denne arms, most like those on the Gallstown shield, are those of Dene or De Dene, of the county of Essex, which are given by Burke in his "General Armory," as argent a fesse dancette gules. Morant, also, in his History of that shire (vol. ii., p. 278, n.) gives a somewhat kindred shield as that of Deane, viz., sable a fesse ermine between three chaplets argent, crest on a wreath ermine and sable, a boar's head couped or, muzzled gules.-ED.

PROCEEDINGS AND PAPERS.

GENERAL MEETING, held in the Society's Apartments, Williamstreet, Kilkenny, on Wednesday, July 4th, 1860.

THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF OSSORY, President of the Society, in the Chair.

The following new Members were elected:

The Right Hon. Lord Carew, Lieutenant of the county of Wexford, Castleboro', Clonroche; Sir James Power, Bart., D. L., J. P., Edermine, Enniscorthy; the Rev. Nicholas Devereux, D.D., Ballyrankin House, Ferns; John Richards, Esq., J. P., Macmine Castle, Enniscorthy; W. K. Farmar, Esq., J. P., Bloomfield, Enniscorthy; John Cullen, Esq., Enniscorthy; and Hercules Ellis, Esq., Barrister-at-law, 15, Granby-row, Dublin: proposed by George C. Roberts, Esq.

John C. Deane, Esq., Sydney-place, Onslow-square, Brompton, London: : proposed by the Rev. James Graves.

Richard Creed, Esq., Cloyne House, Cloyne, county of Cork: proposed by the Rev. S. O'Halloran.

Patrick Tobin, Esq., 17, Merchant's-quay, Dublin: proposed by John G. A. Prim, Esq.

The following presentations were received, and thanks voted to the donors:

By the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society: their Original Papers," vol. vi. Part 1.

By the Publisher: "The Gentleman's Magazine," for May and June, 1860.

By the Publisher: "The Dublin Builder," vol. i., and Nos. 17 and 18.

By the Publisher: "The Builder," Nos. 899-906, both inclusive.

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By G. H. Lowe, Esq. a gun money half-crown of James II. (March, 1690).

Mr. Graves remarked that he had a correction to make with regard to the coins described at page 46, supra. The London groat given by Mr. Barton was of Edward III., as was also that given by Mr. Graves himself. That given by the Rev. Thomas Green was a groat of Edward IV.

The Secretary said he had received the following observations relative to a passage in Mr. Fitzgerald's notice of the "Duivin Deglain," pp. 51-53, supra. As the writer was one of the highest living authorities on the question of seals, he thought it well to place his opinion on record :—

“The duivhin, I have no doubt, is a moiety of a stone-mould for small pendant objects of metal; but being only the reverse, it is puzzling to say what they were-I don't think crucifixes. Is it not a pity to let Mr. Gillespie's assumptions mar the sound criticism and discernment of your 'Journal,' which has done so much to relieve us from the purely-speculative and bold-conjectural style of handling archa logical facts? It is mere darkening of knowledge to affirm that there exist several ecclesiastical seals somewhat similar.'"

The Secretary announced that steps had been taken by the Committee to free Jerpoint Abbey from some of the encroachments which disfigured it, and also to take down a wall that blocked up the nave of the building. This wall had formed part of an alteration in the structure, made with the object of converting the abbey into a private dwelling house, shortly after its suppression as a monastic institution. Although it thus illustrated the comparatively modern history of the abbey, and as such had been spared when the Society was repairing that ancient building some years since; still, as it obstructed the view of the architectural beauties of the nave so much, it was deemed proper now to remove it. Mr. Blake, of Ballinamona, a Member of the Committee, had kindly undertaken to superintend the carrying out of the work.

The Rev. James Graves stated, that he was happy to report the progress of a good work with regard to the tomb of the Fitzpatrick family in the Abbey of Fertagh. This tomb, erected to John Fitzpatrick, and his son Bernard first Baron of Upper Ossory, temp. Henry VIII., bore the effigies of a knight in armour, and of a lady wearing the horned head-dress and long kirtle usual on Irish monuments of that period. It had been much dilapidated within a recent period; and, from the uninclosed state of the ruins, was subject to daily injury. However, during the past spring, at the suggestion of the rector of the parish, the Rev. Thomas Uniacke Townsend, funds were supplied by the munificence of John Wilson Fitzpatrick, Esq.; and not only was the monument restored as far as

possible, but the ruins were also enclosed, and an iron gate erected, to exclude mischievous intruders. The conduct of Mr. Fitzpatrick in the matter, afforded a good example to our resident gentry; and the Rev. Mr. Townsend deserves much credit for his part in the

transaction.

Captain Edward Hoare presented to the Society an engraving of a Hiberno-Danish coin in his collection, accompanied by the following observations :

"In a former number of the Journal' of the Kilkenny, and SouthEast of Ireland Archæological Society (vol. iii., First Series, pp. 179, 180), I had much pleasure in affording an example of a very interesting HibernoDanish coin, the reverse of which is evidently imitated from a penny of Henry the First, of England; and at the same time, also, of then presenting a woodcut of the coin, for the acceptance of the Society.

"I have now the increased pleasure of producing a second example of a similar kind, and, also, of again offering an engraving of another unpublished Hiberno-Danish coin, for illustration in the Journal.' The coin, which is now in my cabinet, is of a somewhat earlier period than the former one, though not very much so; and the obverse is evidently imitated from the well-known canopy-type penny of William the Conqueror, of England, as represented in Hawkins, 'On the Silver Coins of England,' Plate. xvIII., No. 236.

"This coin, as will be seen by the accompanying figure, is, like most

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other Hiberno-Danish coins, with its legends on each side, as yet unknown and mysterious; and therefore I am unable to appropriate it with certainty to any particular personage of those enterprising and roving seakings. It weighs 14 grains. The fact, however, of these Hiberno-Danish coins having been copied and imitated from contemporary English coins, is of much interest, and shows that the intercourse and communication between each country was frequent at the time, and the moneys known to each other; perhaps, also, there may have been some connexion between the engravers of the coins, though of this there is hardly any evidence, even as represented in the coins themselves. I regret I am unable to afford any particulars regarding the discovery of this coin. I purchased it in May, 1859, at the sale, at Sotheby's, in London, of the well-known and extensive collection of the coins and medals of the late Rev. Joseph William Martin, Rector of Keston, in Kent, where it formed part of lot 511 of that sale catalogue, among other Hiberno-Danish coins.

"As I considered this coin of much interest, and most probably very useful to future Hiberno-Danish numismatists and writers on the subject, I have only felt it my duty to place it on record in the Proceedings of the Society."