to offer my own conjefturc about the meaning of it ; becaufe it is 

 from hence I am indined to think it worth a defcription. 



I fuppofe then that the charafters are to be read, not regularly in 

 each of the four compartments, in the ftone feparately, not yet in 

 lines acrofs the adjoining compartments laterally, but by alternate couplets 

 of lines on each fide, in the following order, viz. 



O R T a p 



m a I 

 a n 

 ?2 ^ m 



I c s 



C T 



And I underfland them to denote as follows: 



Obiit R T (Ricardus vel Rodericus, &c, Toole vel Teigue, &c.) 

 *All£e (i. e. Killalla?) Princeps. Maii imo. 



ANNo + (Crucisj Millefimo irao Centefimo § (i. e. fecundo vel 

 quinto). 



The letters a p, which are here fuppofed to mean Allie princeps, fliould 

 perhaps be rendered Allse prcecentor or prebendarius, and may have 

 belonged to the Saint, v;ho might have been the prsecentor, or a pre- 

 bendary of the chapter of the fee of Killall£e,t and the initials of his 

 real name been R. T ; and he might have afterward received the name 

 of Commyn from the church of Killcummin in which he ofiiciated : 

 and then the infcription may run (in Englifh) thus, 



" Died 



* The Latin name of Killalla is Alia, or ratlier Aladia. 

 t One flf the preb«nds of the fee is called Ardagh (Ardagia. ) 



