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This is scarcely old enough to be folk-lore, the name of the well being only a little more than half-a-century old, but at the same time a record may prevent speculation hereafter.

The following is the origin as given by an old coachman of my father: "When I was a boy, before there was a railway in the country, everything for Kingstone, or as it was then Dunleary, was brought in carts along the Rock Road; at the bottom of Monkstown Hill at the well sat an old woman who used to get halfpence from the quality for taking the drags off the wheels of the carriages. When we were passing with the carts we always stopped to take a drink; so the old woman got a jug which she used always to fill when she saw any of us coming; we got to call her Juggy, and generally had a halfpenny or a bit of 'bacca for her when we passed. Poor Juggy went when the railway was made, at least, I never saw her since, but the name has stuck to the well."

It is probable the name will always remain as it is recorded on the Ordnance map, and unless there is a record of its origin it will be a "puzzleite"; in fact it is at the present time, as I have heard some curious pre-christian derivations suggested.

The Place of the Science of Folk-Lore.—The following definition of the place of the Science of Folk-lore in the system of the Historical Sciences was among the corrections of my paper on Folk-lore as the Complement of Culture-lore; but it was, unfortunately, the uncorrected proof, instead of the corrected revise, that was published in the July number of the Journal.

I would distinguish the Historical Sciences as Sciences of Man's Physical Evolution, or the General Science of Anthropology; Sciences of Man's Mental Development, or the General Science of Noology;