178 The Bishop of Bristol [May 19, 



year 850. Martin (genitive Martan) is probably Martin ua Eoicblich, 

 Abbat of Lismore, who according to the Four Masters died in 878. 



The other Tinnahally stone (Fig. 12) is also in the cloister at the 

 Queen's College, Cork. It, like its companion, is 7 feet 6 inches high, 

 but it is less bulky, and the inscription is less clear. It has on it, in 

 my judgment, traces of another ogam inscription, which tend to con- 

 fuse the inscription we are now considering. I am not quite sure 

 that the puzzling and feeble c which thrusts itself in among the 

 digits forming the anm may not be part of such other inscription, just 



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Fig. 12. Fig. 13. 



so far showing itself that the author of the inscription was obliged to 

 leave it as a gap between his n and m. 



I read the scores thus : — an(c)m furuddran maqi mdigeinn " [a 

 prayer for the] repose (or the soul) of Farran, son of Colgen." The 

 name Furuddran is found in an Ogam inscription at Gortamaccaree 

 in the same county of Kerry, in the form Furadran and Furadhran. 

 The destructive effect of the letter h upon consonants which precede 

 it in Irish words reduces this to Furaran and Farran. There are 

 plenty of names similar to Culigcnn; for instance, Cooligan. 



