1899.] 



on Bunic and Ogam Characters, etc. 



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and mac would become maqi or maqtii, the qu being regarded as one 

 letter. This reasoning made the inscriptions fall in so far with the 

 Ballymote key. The St. Dogmael's discovery clenched the matter. 

 Taking the four letters m, a, q, i, as ascertained before the discovery, 

 no less than eleven out of the twenty ogam scores found at St. 

 Dogmael's were already known. The test was at once applied ; the 



Fig. 17. 



(nri) i 



I 



Fig. 16. 



Fig. 18. 



Latin letters agreed with the ogam scores ; and the theoretical reason- 

 ing was triumphantly proved to be correct. The only differences are 

 that Sagrani in the Latin is Sagramni in the Ogam, and Cunotami is 

 Cunatami. The interchange of a very broad o and a very broad a 

 is exactly what we might have expected ; and inasmuch as the name 

 Sagramn is almost of necessity pronounced Sagran, the other difference 

 is quite natural. The Latin reads, Sagrani fill Cunotami ; the Ogams 

 read, beyond all question, Sagramni Maqi Cunatami ; " the memorial 

 of Sagramn, son of Cunatam." I think there can be at most very 



