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that which he had previously made out from the stone itself 
in his letter to the heads of the Ordnance Survey. In the 
former he reads 0 anli as the name of the artist; in the latter, 
ocogu, or O’Cogan; in the former he reads leachoaig pea, 
this stone ; in the latter, leabaig pea, this tomb or sepulchre. 
Fortunately, the stone itself had been sent up to the Exhi- 
bition, and Dr. Todd was enabled to present to the Academy 
an accurate rubbing of it, made by Mr. Joseph Huband Smith. 
From this it appears that, as far as the name of the artist is 
concerned, both readings are wrong, and that the name is 
really O’Cogl, or O’Cogley. It is evident, also, that the 
three concluding words of the inscription are not, in leach- 
daig sea; but, in leabaig sea, and that Dr.O’Donovanhad deci- 
phered them correctly in his letter just quoted, although, in 
his work on the Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, he adopts 
the erroneous reading, in leachdaig sea. 
It may be mentioned incidentally that this unquestionable 
instance of the use of the word leabaig (Ut. a bed), to signify 
a tomb, or monumental gravestone, is interesting in reference 
to another antiquarian controversy. It is known to many of 
the Academy that this word leabaig, or the synonymous lige, 
is the name given by the peasantry in every part of Ireland 
to the monuments which have been called Druids’ altars, 
proving evidently they were regarded in our national tradi- 
tion, not as altars, but as tombs, and thus confirming the opi- 
nion so ably maintained before this Academy by Dr. Petrie 
(in a Paper which, it is to be regretted, has never been pub- 
lished),—an opinion which is now adopted generally by Eng- 
lish and European antiquarians, although some of our learned 
brethren in Wales still cling to the altar hypothesis. 
The Muleachlaind or Maelseachlainn O’ Kelly, mentioned in 
the inscription, was the twenty-ninth in descent from his 
great ancestor Maine Mor, and became what was called king 
or chief of Hy-Many, in 1375. He married, first the daugh- 
ter of Walter Burke, by whom he had three sons, Rory, 
Brian, and Conor ; and, after her death, Fianguala, or Finola, 
