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and do not now mark any grave, to a place where they will be properly cared 

 for and housed, protected from weather and from mischief-makers, is 

 imperative, if the country is not ultimately to lose them altogether. I appea 

 to the Academy to make representations to the responsible local officials, 

 and to secure that these ancient monuments be deposited, if only on loan, in 

 the Museum. One Ogham stone which formerly stood in the cemetery of 

 Killeen Cormae has been smashed to supply materials for the wall that 

 surrounds it. At any moment the valuable monuments that remain may 

 meet the same fate. 



Note added in Pkess. 



P. 229, line 7 from end ; after " I cannot trace . . . the loop of the R " 

 add the fallowing : — 



It is true that the reduction of the facsimile brings into prominence a 

 very faint curved line, not unlike the loop of the perfect E in the inscription. 

 This, however, is scarcely visible in the full-size rubbing, and not at all in the 

 stone. It resembles the oblique scratch above the last E, in being a mere 

 flaw. The letters are boldly cut, and the stone is nowhere so badly worn 

 that any part of the writing could have thus become almost evanescent. 



