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The last letter is badly injured by a flake on the B-side, through which 

 the scores can be dimly traced. The inscription is, however, too fragmentary 

 to be very instructive. 



It is worth noticing that the townland marches with that of Eoovesmore, 

 where three inscriptions were found in a similar souterrain many years ago, 

 and carried off to the British Museum. These inscriptions also present 

 unusual names, and very likely came originally from the same cemetery. 



On the whole, this new find of Oghams is easily the most important 

 that has been made since the Ballyknock stones were found in the same 

 county, over twenty years ago. And though there were fifteen inscriptions 

 in that group, and only six in the newly discovered series, in intrinsic worth 

 the two finds may very suitably be compared with one another. It is for 

 every reason, both national and scientific, to be hoped that Sir Bertram Windle 

 will be encouraged to go on with the work that he has so magnificently 

 inaugurated by making available the series of ogham stones which some 

 vandals of the middle ages buried out of sight in the dark crypt of Cnoc 

 Sean-Mhaighe. 



NOTE ADDED IN PBESS. 



The mutilation of No. 5 of the Knockshanawee series is an excellent 

 illustration of the mutilation of Ogham pillars by the destruction of the 

 ancestral names, to which I have already called attention. It cannot have 

 been meant merely to make the stone more convenient for building, as may 

 have been the case of No. 4, which is similarly mutilated. 



