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An Account of an antient INSCRIPTION in OGAM 

 CHARACTER on the Sepulchral Monumefit of an IRISH 

 CHIEF, dijcovered by THEOPHILUS O'FLANAGAN, 

 Student of T. C. D. Communicated by the Rev. WILLIAM 

 HAMILTON, F.T.C.D. Secretary to the Committee of 

 Antiquities. 



Jr URSUANT to the requeft and diredions of your academy, in Read De- 

 the beginning of laft autumn I went to the county of Clare, in 1785. 

 order to condud Edward William Burton, Efq; of ClifFden in 

 that county, to a monument of antiquity which I had the good 

 fortune to difcover five or fix years before on a mountain, named 

 Mount Callan : of this I had the honour to prefent a memorial 

 to Colonel Vallancey in the year 1784 ; but as indeed I had not then 

 a fufficient knowledge of the Ogam charader to enable me to 

 give a critical interpretation of the infcription, I beg leave now 

 to offer to the Royal Academy the refult of an attentive ex- 

 amination of it fince that time. 



Having from my earlieft days been pretty well acquainted 

 with the feveral dialeds of the Irifh language, I took great 



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