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Contributions to Irish lexicography. The chieftain Cul-rix would therefore 

 have a name similar in meaning to that of the Aeduan chieftain Epo-redo- 

 rix, of whom we hear from Caesar. As for menu, there is on one of the 

 Drumloghan stones a name similarly declined, manu; but the vowels do 

 not allow us to compare them further. A compound of the name, which 

 in the earliest ogham orthography would have probably been written 

 *Menu-viccas, appears on the well-known Inchagoill stone in the form 

 mexueh, the H being meant for ch. 



The stone was fractured immediately after the Q by the rath-builders, 

 and the further steps of the genealogy are lost. 



(5) The seventh lintel : red sandstone, 6 feet 6 inches long, 2 feet 

 3 inches broad, and 10 inches across. The inscription began 2 feet 8 inches 

 clown from the top on the left-hand side, ran up to and over the head, 

 and down on the right-hand side ; but the rath-builders had smashed away 

 the whole of the writing on the right-hand angle except the tips of the scores 

 of the final s, which is 1 foot 8 inches, down from the top — 



I /////> \ll\\ iUU / ' ' "" i "" "in/in mi H I : 



BRAN IMAQ q IMUCCfoi qcttia) s" 



Between bbani and maqqi is a space of \\ inches, which is worn, and 

 contains no definite trace of any letter. A faint mark which might be A is 

 discernible, but on the whole is probably to be rejected as a mere accident. 

 This is the only case in Co. Cork, of the peculiar spelling maqqi muccoi, 

 with double letters : an orthography specially characteristic of the Corkaguiney 

 group of inscriptions. It is not at all impossible that we have here the 

 monument of some wandering Kerryman ; I suggest qettias as the restoration 

 of the patronymic, as that name is established in Corkaguiney ; there is just 

 about space for it, and the missing scores must have been on the H 

 side. The name brani is familiar, though it has not hitherto been found 

 uncompounded in Ogham inscriptions. 



(6) The eighth lintel : red sandstone, 5 feet 9 inches long, 2 feet 

 8 inches broad, and 9 inches thick; the stone is very irregular in shape 

 and the above are the maximum dimensions. The rath-builders had 

 smashed away the top of the stone, leaving only the few letters which 

 occupied the first eleven inches of the inscribed angle — 



""" llll"^ 



COL L O (s or n V.. 

 U \y , 



H.I.A. PKOC, VOL. XXXII., SECT. C. [22] 



