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The lands which are recited in the grants are situate in the 
parish of Kildalton, on the south-east of the island of Islay, 
and most of the names still appear upon the county map. 
They are not Celtic in their form, and the writer of Parochial 
Memoirs, in the old Statistical Account of Scotland, observes, 
<¢ All the farms round this fort [of Cheunn-Outh] have Danish 
names, such as Kennibus, Assibus, Kelibus, Lirebus, and 
Cragabus.”* In reference to some other names, he adds, 
‘‘ There is, in the other end of the parish, the remains of an 
old church, at a place known by the name of Kilnaughtan. 
The nearest farm to this is called Baille Vicar, or the Vicar’s 
Town; and there is joined to this farm the Clerk’s patch, 
which is now of some value. There is, at the distance of four 
miles, a farm called Baile Naughtan.”t 
Rey. Charles Graves, D.D., exhibited rubbings of some 
monuments in the county of Kerry, presenting crosses, along 
with Ogham inscriptions. He stated, as the result ofa care- 
ful examination of all the monuments of this kind seen by 
him in Kerry, that there were no grounds for the assertion 
that the crosses had been inscribed at a later period than the 
Ogham characters. 
When a square stone is formed ofa stratified material, the 
grain will be different in two of its adjacent faces; one face 
may also be more exposed to the action of the weather than 
another. ‘These circumstances are, in many cases, sufficient 
to account for the fact, that some parts of an inscription are 
better preserved than the rest. 
He also stated that the peculiar mode of execution observed 
in many of the inscriptions, namely, by punching rather than 
cutting, is common to the crosses and the Ogham strokes. 
* Statistical Account of Scotland, by Sir J. Sinclair, vol, xi. p. 292. 
t Ibid., p. 295. 
