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with the infcription. For, at the diftancc of about a mile 

 North Eaft from the high road leading from Ennis to Ibrican, I 

 perceived (as I thought) a fquare rock, which bore the awful 

 appearance of a monument, on the Leitirmoylan (that is, the South 

 Eaft) fide of the mountain. I haftened my pace ; but, on com- 

 ing up to it, how much was I difappointed, finding it to be a 

 large Druid altar, without the fmallefl traces of any charaders 

 appearing thereon ! 



Notwithstanding this difappointment, ftill I was deter- 

 mined to perfevere, and traverfed a long range of the mountain 

 to no purpofe. At length applying to a cottager hard by, I 

 a{ked him whether he knew of any other ftone on the moun- 

 tain befides the altar, which bore any refemblance to a monu- 

 ment, or that appeared to have an infcription on it ? He told 

 me that he obferved one not unlike a tomb-ftone, having ftrokes 

 engraved thereon very unlike letters, at the fide of a fmall 

 lake, about a mile North Eaft of the altar. To this, at my 

 requeft, he direded me ; and on my arrival there, all my anxiety 

 was done away by a fuccefsful difcovery of the wifhed-for mo- 

 nument. 



I HAD taken no grammar with me, and having the rules of 

 decyphering but imperfedly in memory, I was not thoroughly 

 well-prepared to collect the entire fenfe of the infcription. However, 

 I made fome attempt even then towards an interpretation, which 

 did not materially differ from the firft reading given in this pa- 

 per, for the infcription admits of five, as I fhall have occafion 

 to fhew hereafter. My explication was then, " Beneath this 



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