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of the race to which Finola belonged, as well as three of the 
extinct race of Manus. Ifso, the draped figures will repre- 
sent the three royal ancestors of the wife of O’Kelly: viz., 
Aedh, son of Eoghan, her grandfather, who was slain in 
1309; Feidlimidh, his son, who reigned six years, and was 
slain in the great battle of Athenry in 1316, at the early age 
of 23; when his rival Ruaidhri or Rory na bfedh (or of the 
Faes, a territory near Athlone, where he was fostered), one 
of the Clan Murtogh, took the throne and held it until he was 
murdered by Cathal, the son of Aodh, in 1321, who then 
succeeded his brother, and is probably the third of the draped 
sovereigns; for in 1324 we find another Cathal, of the Clan 
Murtogh family, styled King of Connaught by the annalists. 
The conjecture, therefore, which Dr. Todd threw out as 
to the meaning of the figures is, that the three skeleton kings 
represent the extinct race of Manus O’Conor, who died in 
1293, and that the draped and living kings represent the three 
regal ancestors of Finola: viz., Aodh or Hugh, son of Eoghan, 
who succeeded in 1293; Feidhlimidh, his son, who succeeded 
in 1310; and Cathal, another son, who appears to have suc- 
ceeded in 1321. 
It is to be understood, however, that this is a mere con- 
jecture, intended to attract the attention of Irish scholars to 
the subject, in the hope that the investigation of it may lead 
to the fuller elucidation of a very obscure period in our his- 
tory. It may be observed, that the Irish names under the 
skeleton figures forbid us to suppose the upper part of the 
picture to have any relation to the martyrdom of St. Sebas- 
tian, and fully justify us in assuming that this portion of the 
fresco has relation to Irish or family history. 
