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mgen 1-chonchtip 00 pine 
laind | inge | tchonchutr | do rine 
Macha O’Cosun im leabas rea 
matha | ocoqu | in leabatg | sea 
_ «© ¢ For Muleachlaind O’Keallaid, for the King of Hy-Mani, 
and for Finola, the daughter of O’Conchuir, Mathew O’Cogi 
made this bed.’ 
«< The two inscriptions in fresco on the wallare so obliterated 
that I could not make sense of them. The wall is damp and 
very much stained, and there is a black scum raised on it by 
the dropping down of the rain. Mr. Petrie has copied the 
figures on this wall; perhaps he has also attempted to deci- 
pher the inscriptions at their feet. If the wall were carefully 
washed on a summer’s day, and then permitted to dry, a per- 
son skilled in inscriptions of the age to which these belong, 
could certainly read a great part of these inscriptions, but 
without washing the wall it would be impossible to make any 
sense of them. 
«‘T cleaned a part of the wall, and deciphered a part of 
the inscription under the hostage pierced with arrows. 
pro aia Malachie 
Cah p aia (Malachie 
I think it refers to Malachy O’Kelly, for whom the other mo- 
nument was inscribed. Has Mr. Petrie deciphered this in- 
scription ? 
‘© T cannot forget O’Brien’s notice of the figures on this 
wall. He makes the building a ruin of a pagan temple re- 
paired into a monastery in the twelfth century by Charles the 
Redhanded, King of Connaught, and the archers represent 
the longé jaculans Apollo !” 
Having quoted this account of the inscriptions from Dr. 
O’Donovan’s letter, Dr. Todd proceeded to speak, first, of that 
on the tomb of Muleachlaind O’Kelly, and his wife Finola. 
It appeared that Dr. O'Donovan, in his Tribes and Customs 
of Hy-Many, gave a different reading of the inscription from 
