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The remaining pages of the volume contain only some 
scribbling of no importance or interest. 
Mr. Huband Smith exhibited to the Academy a ‘‘rub- 
bing” taken from the tombstone of William O’ Byrne (a.p. 
1569), in the cathedral of Old Leighlin, county of Carlow. 
This tombstone has been noticed but slightly in the 
‘* History and Antiquities of the County of Carlow,” by 
John Ryan, Esq., published in 1833, from which Mr. Smith 
read a passage (pp. 344 and 345), in which a few words of the 
inscription are given, so as to identify the stone, which is said 
to be ‘generally reputed, even by men of education, to be 
that ofa Bishop Kavanagh,” but the writer professes his 
“inability to decipher the entire,” and adds, that he ‘could 
not discover the exact year inscribed on the tomb.” 
The rubbing, now exhibited by Mr. Smith, was made by 
Mr. Robert J. Gabbett, of Cahirmoyle, County of Limerick, 
and the inscription, as deciphered from this rubbing, is as 
follows : 
Wic facet WAillelpmus obrin filius tnominati filii Gil- 
lelmi filit David rufi Grenerosus de Corraloske et ballenebre- 
nagh ac burgensis Weteris Leahleniensis——obit xbii. die 
mensis Funii A. vt, MH. ceece®. Ixix. et efus Gxoris WAinna 
Bewanagh filia Miaurict filti donati ( ) monens qui 
obiit.. . . Die mensis... . A. vt. $B. cece... . . Quorum 
animabus propicietur deus. Amen. 
Several contractions occur in the inscription, which, how- 
ever, are easily filled up; a few letters also are wanting on 
the edge of the stone, which Mr. Smith had little doubt he 
supplied correctly from the context. The only word he was 
unable to read was the title, or designation, as he supposed, 
following the name of Donatus, or Donogh Kavanagh, and 
ending in the dissyllable ‘‘ monens.” Blanks are left on the 
stone for the exact date of the decease of Winna Kavanagh, 
