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The remaining pages of the volume contain only some 

 scribbling of no importance or interest. 



Mr. Huband Smith exhibited to the Academy a "rub- 

 bing" taken from the tombstone of William O'Byrne (a. d. 

 1569), in the cathedral of Old Leighlin, county of Carlow. 



This tombstone has been noticed but slightly in the 

 " History and Antiquities of the County of Carlow," by 

 John Ryan, Esq., published in 1833, from which Mr. Smith 

 read a passage (pp. 344 and 345), in which a few words of the 

 inscription are given, so as to identify the stone, which is said 

 to be "generally reputed, even by men of education, to be 

 that of a Bishop Kavanagh," but the writer professes his 

 " inability to decipher the entire," and adds, that he " could 

 not discover the exact year inscribed on the tomb." 



The rubbing, now exhibited by Mr. Smith, was made by 

 Mr. Robert J. Gabbett, of Cahirmoyle, County of Limerick, 

 and the inscription, as deciphered from this rubbing, is as 

 follows : 



l^ic \nm WiiMfimm ol)rm filius mommati fili'i Wiih 

 lelmi filti WabiO ruK ^encrosus tie ©orralosfec n feallenebrc 



nagS ac burgensis Feteris Hegj^Icnfcnsis obit xbii. trie 



mm%i% %mii ^°. iJ'. JW. ccccc". hix. tt ejus ^axon's MLima 

 iBtetoanag]^ filia iWaurict filit Uonati ( ) moncns qui 



obii't . . . . ftie mensis . . . . ^°. tiK M- ««c C&uorum 



animabug proptcietur beus. ^men. 



Several contractions occur in the inscription, which, how- 

 ever, are easily filled up ; a few letters also are wanting on 

 the edge of the stone, which Mr. Smith had little doubt he 

 supplied correctly from the context. The only word he was 

 unable to read was the title, or designation, as he supposed, 

 following the name of Donatus, or Donogh Kavanagh, and 

 ending in the dissyllable " monens." Blanks are left on the 

 stone for the exact date of the decease of Winna Kavanagh, 



