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OX SOME RECENTLY DISCOVERED OGHAM INSCRIPTIONS. 



By R. A. S. MACALISTER, M.A. 



Plates XIY, XV. 



[Read Xovemeeh 29, 1913. Published January 24, 1914.] 



Several previously unknown inscriptions in the Ogham character have 

 recently come to light, which it is desirable to put on record. 



I. KlLKEEHAGH, C'O. KEERY (PLATE XIY). 



This stone stands on the boundary between the townlands of Xilkeehagh 

 and Gleenesk, on the slope of Drung HiU, near Mountain Stage Railway 

 Station, barony of Iveragh. It is well known in the neighbourhood under 

 the name of Leacht Fhionain, or " Fionan's Grave,'' though the inscription 

 supplies no warrant for this name. There is an account of the stone signed 

 M. J. Delap, in the Kerry Archaeological Magazine for November, 1913, 

 without any reading of the inscription, but adding the interesting infor- 

 mation that it was formerly a place of pilgrimage, people coming thither 

 " all the way from Limerick." It is marked " Laghtfmnan Penitential 

 Station " in the O.S. map, Kerry sheet, 63, in the lower left-hand corner. 



There is a mound of loose stones, about 100 feet in diameter and 5 feet 

 high, on the north side of the old road which runs round the brow of Drung 

 Hill to Caherciveen, on the townland indicated. The stone stands in the 

 middle of this pile, 3 feet 3 inches high ; maximum breadth, 1 foot 2 inches ; 

 maximum thickness, about 8 inches. It is of a red, slaty stone, much scaled, 

 and the inscription (which is on the edge turned toward the road) is much 

 injured. It reads: — 



/nullum 



M A Q I R (itte? ) 



Up to the E all is plain. A line sloping off on the B-side from the follow- 

 ing vowel looks like the tail of an x at first sight ; but it is merely the edge 

 of a flaw running over the face of the stone. The second vowel-point after 

 the B is possible, but doubtful ; after this comes 8k inches in which both sides 



