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Dr. Kinahan said the term ‘archetype’ being objected to by some as 
already pre-oceupied and used in a double sense, perhaps, if he might coin 
a word, that of ‘holotype’ might be advantageously used in its place. 
Tur Ven. THE ARCHDEACON oF ARDFERT read a— 
REPORT OF AN OGHAM MONUMENT LATELY DISCOVERED ON THE SITE OF THE 
FIRST BATTLE RECORDED AS HAVING BEEN FOUGHT BY THE MILESIANS IN 
TRELAND. 
Ir seems to me desirable to place before Irish antiquarians in general, 
and more especially those interested in Ogham investigations, some de- 
tails respecting an Ogham monument lately brought under notice in a 
locality marked by very definite description in the legendary annals of 
Ireland. I need not enlarge upon the great question pending between 
Ogham authorities, as to whether these inscriptions are to be assigned to 
a date anterior or subsequent to the Christian era; to whichever side 
the preponderance of opinion may incline, I believe that it must be said 
““adhue sub judice lis est ;’’ and it will be conceded that a main part of 
the difficulty in arriving at any unquestionable conclusion arises from the 
fact, that while a considerable number of those monuments have, from 
time to time, been discovered, there is scarcely a thread of historic clue 
to guide the inquirer as to their meaning or chronologic relations. It 
is in this dearth of historic information that I am induced to invite atten- 
tion to the discovery of an Ogham monument hitherto unnoticed, which, 
though lying in a locality intimately known to the late lamented Richard 
Hitchcock, escaped even the research of that enthusiastic investigator of 
Ogham remains, and which has now been brought to light in the very 
position in which a very circumstantial historic legend might lead the 
supporters of one of the theories respecting Ogham to expect that such 
a monument would be found. Being so found, I venture to hope, that 
under the examination of competent investigators, it may prove doubly 
interesting ; first, as having light thrown upon its age and meaning by 
the legend referred to; and again, as possibly returning the obligation, 
by affording, in its mute but unquestionable record, a testimony which 
may tend to establish, among historic verities, statements which many, 
pretending to decide with all the authority of right reason, have, by 
a judgment more hasty than dispassionate, summarily dismissed to ‘‘the 
wild and pathless region of romance.’’ (Vide Wood’s ‘‘Treland,”’ p. 60.) 
All who do not throw aside the remnants of Irish history which have 
come down to us as ‘‘ bardic myths,”’ consent to the tradition that the 
first landing of the Milesians in Ireland took place on the south-west 
coast of Kerry, in Munster; and it may here be observed, that this land- 
ing is supposed to have been effected in the very locality upon which a 
world-wide attention is now fixed, as the European point from which it 
has been ascertained that the flashing of intelligence between the New 
and Old World continents is an accomplishable fact. It was here that, 
as is calculated, about thirty centuries since, a tribe of the Scythi, after 
a sojourn in Spain, are recorded as haying first made good a landing in 
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