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3. The names occurring on the monuments are generally 

 Irish ones latinized in a pedantic manner. 



Professor Graves then proceeded to describe several Og- 

 ham monuments, of which he exhibited drawings, and gave 

 the readings of the inscriptions on them. As regards their ge- 

 neral nature, these monuments resemble those ancientChristian 

 sepulchral monuments in Cornwall and Wales, of which the 

 two following may be taken as types : 



VINNEMAGLI 

 SASKANI FILI CUNOTAMI. 



It would seem that a word signifying " the stone" is un- 

 derstood before the proper name. It is supplied in the case 

 of a remarkable and very ancient monument, described and 

 figured by Dr. Petrie in his Essay on the Round Towers, 

 p. 164. 



The inscriptions in the Ogham character, as they stood 

 originally, were, with few exceptions, read from left to right. 

 Beginning from the lower part of the stone, on which they 

 were engraved, though not at the very extremity of it, they 

 run upwards^ and the line of characters is frequently carried 

 on over the top of the stone, and then down along another of 

 its faces or angles. Some of the names on the stones are 

 actually Latin. For instance, a stone figured in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Academy, Vol. II., p. 516, fig. 3, bears the name 

 Saoittari. a French bishop of the same name lived in the 

 middle of the sixth century. Another stone, found in the 

 barony of Corkaguiny, in the county of Kerry, has the name 

 Mariani inscribed upon it. In general the names appearing 

 on the stones are such as commonly occur in early Irish 

 church history, sometimes, however, slightly modified in the 

 attempt to give them a Latin form. A finely preserved stone 

 at Emlagh East, near Dingle, presents the name Brusccos, 

 which belonged to an ecclesiastic contemporary with St. 

 Patrick. 



