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The lands which are recited in the grants are situate in the 

 parish of Kildalton, on the south-east of the island of Islay, 

 and most of the names still appear upon the county map. 

 They are not Celtic in their form, and the writer of Parochial 

 Memoirs, in the old Statistical Account of Scotland, observes, 

 "All the farms round this fort [of Cheunn-Outh] have Danish 

 names, such as Kennibus, Assibus, Kelibus, Lirebus, and 

 Cragabus."* In reference to some other names, he adds, 

 " There is, in the other end of the parish, the remains of an 

 old church, at a place known by the name of Kilnaughtan. 

 The nearest farm to this is called Bailie Vicar, or the Vicar's 

 Town ; and there is joined to this farm the Clerk's patch, 

 which is now of some value. There is, at the distance of four 

 miles, a farm called Baile Naughtan."f 



Kev. Charles Graves, D.D., exhibited rubbings of some 

 monuments in the county of Kerry, presenting crosses, along 

 with Ogham inscriptions. He stated, as the result of a care- 

 ful examination of all the monuments of this kind seen by 

 him in Kerry, that there were no grounds for the assertion 

 that the crosses had been inscribed at a later period than the 

 Ogham characters. 



When a square stone is formed of a stratified material, the 

 grain will be different in two of its adjacent faces ; one face 

 may also be more exposed to the action of the weather than 

 another. These circumstances are, in many cases, sufficient 

 to account for the fact, that some parts of an inscription are 

 better preserved than the rest. 



He also stated that the peculiar mode of execution observed 

 in many of the inscriptions, namely, by punching rather than 

 cutting, is common to the crosses and the Ogham strokes. 



* Statistical Account of Scotland, by Sir J. Sinclair, vol, xi. p. 292. 

 t Ibid., p. 295. 



