Brash — On Ogham Inscribed Stones. 5 



length, four feet ten inches ; breadth at the centre, one foot nine inches ; 

 and average thickness, five inches. The inscription on the left angle 

 commenced at eight inches from the bottom, and terminated close to 

 the top ; the angle is much worn and disintegrated, and requires much 

 care in tracing. The characters which are below the surface are the 

 best preserved. I went over the letters several times with great care, 

 and fully satisfied myself as to the correctness of my copy, which is as 

 follows : — 



ULU h ri I . i | ai M/m "'' ii icz>H-jr-M // 



COLLABOTMU CO I LO 



The above presents us with a name to be found on two other monu- 

 ments, " Collabot." They were originally taken from the crypt of an 

 erased rath on the townland of Laharan, and parish of Kilbonane, 

 county of Kerry ; and were used as lintels over a door and window 

 ope, in a peasant's cabin on the same townland. They are now in 

 the possession of Lord Dunraven, and may be seen in the grounds at 

 Adare Manor. On one of these stones the form of the name is 

 " Collabot ;" in the inscription it occupies the place of the patronymic. 

 On the other, it presents us with the name of the individual commemo- 

 rated, in the form of Collabotas. On both of the above stones the name is 

 perfectly distinct, as well as that at Kiltera, so that there can be no 

 mistake about the forms of this name which I have given. The 

 suffix as, in the last form, appears to be the genitive termination. I 

 have met with it as such in several inscriptions. 



Graedhelic names, with the prefix Colla and Col, are frequently met 

 with as the "Three Collas :" Colla-uais, Colla-mean, Colla da Chrioch, 

 a. d. 315 to 331 ; Colla Mac Barith, Lord of Limerick, a. d. 922 ; and 

 Colla, Abbot of Scattery, who died a. d. 994. "We have also such 

 names as Colcenn, Colbrenn, Colann, &c. Following the name of the 

 deceased, we have the word Mucoi, so frequently found in ogham in- 

 scriptions — in some instances forming a proper name, in others indi- 

 cating an occupation. Mucoi is evidently the ogham form of Mucaiclhe, 

 a swineherd. 



The letter I in the word Mucoi is injured, there being a small flake 

 off the angle of the stone, which has carried away two of the vowel 

 marks. I am not certain as to the values of the characters I have 

 marked, LO, as, from the damaged state of the angle, both characters 

 may have had originally a greater number of scores ; after the fifteenth 

 character there is a space with traces of letters, but nothing reliable ; 

 on the corner of the top angle is a half-defaced C, which I have shown 

 by dots; it is, therefore, quite evident that we have here an imperfect 

 inscription, a considerable portion of which is lost. The right-hand 

 angle is much more damaged than the left, and the characters more 

 illegible. 



