108 Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



mam ppipp anall, 7 con pacaib a lapno h-i calam ; ippeo an oicelcap po po boi ip in 501 pin. 

 Pujebcap in mael cloc oia po lapa a pouo pi, a 7 po^ebcap anaip lapnn ip in calam, 7 pogebcap 

 uulao b POCOIO Qipjcig ppip anaip bic. Gca compap cloci imbi ano h-i calam. Gear a o! 

 poll aipgic, 7 a DI bunne ooac, 7 a rnumcopc apjic pop a compaip; 7 acu coipce oc a ulaio; 7 

 uca ogom ip in ano pil h-i calam oin coipci. Ippeo pil ano, 



eochaio aiR^chech INSO. 



Ra m-bi Cailce in imaepiuc ppi pmo. Gche (.1. oo jnfchep) lap in oclaic a pice pamlaio ule, 

 7 popepca." 



" We were with thee, O Finn, said the youth. Hush ! said Mongan, that is not good [fair]. 

 " We were with Finn, once, said he ; we went from Alba, [recte Almain]. We fought against 

 Fothadh Airgthech here with thee at Ollarba. We fought a battle here ; I made a shot at him, and 

 I drove my spear through him, so that the spear entered the earth at the other side of him, and its 

 iron head was left buried in the earth. This is the very handle that was in that spear. The round 

 stone from which I made that shot will be found, and east of it will be found the iron head of the 

 spear buried in the earth ; and the uluidh [earn] of Fothadh Airgthech will be found a short dis- 

 tance to the east of it. There is a chest of stone about him in the earth. There are his two rings 

 of silver, and his two bunne doat [bracelets ?], and his torque of silver on his chest ; and there is a pil- 

 lar stone at his earn ; and an Ogumis [inscribed] on the end of the pillar stone which is in the earth. 



And what is in it is, 



EOCHAID AIRGTHECH HERE. 



It was Cailte that was here along with Finn. All these things were searched for by the yovith who 

 had arrived, and they were found." 



I think I have now adduced sufficient evidence to satisfy the reader re- 

 specting the real character of the pagan modes of sepulture in use in Ireland, 

 and that the theory, advanced by my friends of the South Munster Society of 

 Antiquaries, is at variance as well with the ancient Irish authorities as with the 

 existing monuments of known pagan antiquity. 



The only remaining hypothesis of those referring the Hound Towers to a 

 pagan use, namely, their having been PHALLI, or PRIAPEIA TEMPLA, is happily 

 so absurd, and at the same time so utterly unsupported by authority or evidence 

 worthy of refutation, that I gladly pass it by without further notice, even though 

 it has found a zealous supporter in the person of Sir William Betham, since 

 these pages were originally written and read to the Academy, and who was 

 consequently not unacquainted with their contents. 



8 Qn poao pin, i. e. that shot, in H. 3, 17 



b Ulam in H. 3, 17, which is the form of the word still in use. 



