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NO. Ill. 
++ OCUS 00 Macc RaIth hu 0 | 
ONOChANA DO R15 Cassil 
‘* And for Mac Raith grandson 
of Donchadh [ Donogh] King of Cashel.” 
The genealogy of this Mac Raith, a descendant of the 
celebrated Ceallachan Caisel, is well known. He is styled by 
Tighernach, who appears not to have recognised his right to 
the throne of Munster, King of the Eoghanacht of Cashel. 
He died A.D. 1052. 
This fact therefore still further limits the date of this side 
of the box to the twenty-nine years from 1023 to 1052. 
NO. IV. 
*+- OR 00 OUNChaDd hu taccain 
00 MUINTIR CLUGNG 0O RISNI 
‘A Prayer for Dunchadh O’Tagain, 
of the family [i.e., of the monastic society | 
of Cluana [Clonmacnois], who made it.” 
Of this Donchad, or Donogh O Tagain, we know nothing 
except what we learn from this inscription: that he was a 
monk of Clonmacnois, and that he was the artist or silver- 
smith by whom the box was made. 
These four inscriptions run round the four sides of the 
square which forms the bottom of the box. Two others ori- 
ginally ran at right angles to those sides, crossing at the centre 
of the square. But these have been rudely cut away, at their 
intersection, to make way for a crystal, set in an oval frame, of 
the same workmanship, and evidently of the same date as the 
top of the box. All that remain of these inscriptions are the 
following fragments :— 
