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Oghams are written in full, instead of being represented by the 
poppeavha, which are said to have been invented for the pur- 
pose. 
‘< In concluding my notice of these Oghams, I must remark, 
that they furnish an unanswerable proof that the Ogham cha- 
racter was in use amongst Irish ecclesiastics in the Middle 
Ages. That Clonmacnoise was a distinguished seat of Ogham 
lore is proved by the following stanzas, occurring at the be- 
ginning of an ancient poem on the families buried in that 
cemetery :— 
Cataip Ciapan Cluain mic noip, 
baile opGécpolup deapsporp. 
Oo cpil pigpaige ap buan blag 
Sluaig pan pidbaile ppuidglan. 
Acdic uaiple Clomoe Cumo 
Fan pelig lecaio, leapgéuino. 
Snaidm n6é cnaeb 6p 5a¢ colaimno 
Acar amm éaem Geant ogaim. 
That is, 
Clonmacnoise is the city of Ciaran, 
A place of bright dews and red roses. 
Of the race of kings of lasting fame 
There is a host beneath the peaceful sacred place. 
The nobles of the Clann Cuinn lie 
Beneath the flagged, brown, sloping cemetery. 
A knot or branch (craobh) over each body, 
And a correct Ogham name. 
‘* My attention was pointed to this poem by Mr. Eugene 
Curry, who found it in a MS. in the Bodleian Library at Ox- 
ford, marked Rawlinson, 406, at fol. 7. 
‘‘ The truth of the statement here made is confirmed by the 
discovery, at Clonmacnoise, of a tombstone bearing the name 
