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‘“‘ How the lady descended from the three whose names 
are in the upper line, I have not at present time to inquire, 
but that she was of their line is, I think, implied in the fact 
of her decorating their tomb. In all the lines of the O’Conor 
family I can find but one set of names to agree in succession 
with the inscription; and they were apparently successors in 
the same line; here they are from the Annals of the Four Mas- 
ters : 
“*¢ A.D, 1293. Manus O’Conor, King of Connaught, a warlike 
and valiant man, the most victorious, puissant, and hospitable, of 
the Irish of his time, died, having been ill a quarter of a year.’ 
“A.D. 1294. Murtogh, the son of Manus O’Conor, the best 
materies of a provincial king of all his tribe, was slain by Teige 
(O’Conor), and Donell, the son of Teige.’ 
“« A.D. 1368. Murtogh, son of Murtogh O’Conor, died.’ ” 
The two monuments here described by Mr. Curry had 
been, one perfectly, the other partially, deciphered fifteen 
years ago by Dr. O’Donovan, then engaged in the historical 
department of the Irish Survey. His letter, dated 13th Sep- 
tember, 1838, is preserved in the singularly interesting collec- 
tion of letters now at Mountjoy Barracks, in the Phoenix Park. 
Through the kindness of Major Larcom, Dr. Todd was per- 
mitted to peruse the volume containing the letter alluded to, 
and has extracted the following account of the inscriptions 
in question :— 
‘«‘T made every search for inscriptions in this Abbey, but 
found only four, two painted in fresco on the wall, and two 
inscribed on stones. On a stone inserted in the wall, at the 
right-hand side of a tomb, which looks like a small place for 
an altar, in the choir of the Abbey, is the following inscrip- 
tion :— 
Oo Mhuleachtaino O’Ceallaio 
Wo | muleachlaind | okeallatd 
Oo Ri OMan agur do mohuatamno 
bo | vi | omant | agas | Dindbua 
