144: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



The last letter might be a Q; but the spacing rather suggests a c followed by 

 the first score of another letter. The writing is very rough; and the decipher- 

 ment of this fragment gave us more trouble than that of all the rest put 

 together. The name GKIMIGGNI is new, and I cannot find any Celtic name 



//M" ' "/'""//// ■ " ■ " "" ""/y// 1 "" 



G R I M 1 GG N (i maq) I C E R C ( 



with the Teutonic-looking element Grim. The diminutive termination is 

 here spelt with a double G ; this orthography has only once been found 

 elsewhere, on a fragment from Mangerton Mountain, now at Adare. The 

 fragmentary cerc ... is also rather problematical. 



(4) This remarkable stone was the third lintel. It is 10 feet 2 inches 

 long, 1- foot broad, and 10 inches thick ; the top was missing, and with it the end 

 of the inscription ; and the remaining part was very fragile, and broke in two 

 along the line of an old crack when the monument was being moved. The 

 letters were carelessly cut, and, like No. 3, gave us much trouble. The 

 inscription, however, when read, proved to be as follows : — 



■ , N\\\\ i Mii\ v i i i i n-| JI I H i nn [ mi , „„ m | 



rmr 



U BB R. I GAI MAC} I ME N UMAq(imucoi.. 



L 



There are several points to notice about this inscription. First, as a matter 

 of calligraphy, the cross-scores in the first name slope the wrong way, and in 

 the rest of the inscription are vertical to the axis. There is an ambiguity about 

 the group of scores following the first u ; they might be bb or L. Next we 

 notice the formula of the inscription, including an intermediate line in the 

 genealogy between the principal and the eponymous name. As a group of 

 two such extra names is quite unprecedented, the last word must be the 

 remains of maqi mucoi, not of magi alone. 



Here, again, we meet with puzzles in dealing with the names. Indeed 

 this group of Oghams is, from the point of nomenclature, quite the most 

 remarkable ever discovered. First we notice the rare and anomalous -ai 

 genitive termination, found also in qetai, eottais, gebbais, and tanais, 

 if the two latter early readings of mine on the stone at Chute Hall, near 

 Tralee are correct. If the bb reading be accepted, we should have to analyse 

 the name into cu-bbrig-, a compound of On, ' a hound,' and the well-known 

 root hrig — meaning ' brilliant ' or something of the kind. The difficulty of 

 this is that we should have expected cuno-beig-. On the whole, I am now 

 inclined to read cul-rigai. Cut is a word explained in Cormac's Glossary 

 as a chariot : a few examples of its use will be found cited in Meyer's 



