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definite ; the upper half of the AI is also damaged ; between the A and 

 the score folio-wing is also a space of six inches, with marks of scores 

 above the worn angle ; the rest of the characters are quite distinct. 



Filling up the injured parts by such letters as are indicated by the 

 inscription itself, and the size of the spaces vacant, I propose the fol- 

 lowing restoration : — 



sii inn/' " m ' " imi n"ii}ir 



GAN OAQ I ADDI L0 5I 



To bear out my restoration of the first name, I would mention that 

 about six miles from Kilbonane, in a Rath-cave on the townland of 

 Tinnehally, an inscribed stone was discovered which bears the name 

 - G-ann ; we have here certainly the initials of the name, and spaces 

 which will just contain the missing letters, only one of which, the 

 vowel, is indeed essential to its completion. 



The same reasoning applies to the word A1AQI. The last name, 

 the patronymic, ADDILON, is one we can recognise as historic : thus, 

 we find that Adhlan, son of Eighneach, died A.D. 950. (Ann. 4 Alas.) ; 

 names of a similar type are to be found in our indices, as Adamair, son 

 of Pearcorb, A. Al. 4783. Adamnan, A. D. 684 {Ibid.) 



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This is, in point of length, the most important line of characters 

 on the stone ; it is incised lengthways, nearly on the centre of the face, 

 from bottom to top ; such examples are rare ; as yet I am aware of only 

 three other instances where the legend is cut on the face of the monu- 

 ment ; these are Kilcoleman, Lomanagh, and Callan mountain. The 

 characters commence at ten inches from the bottom, and continue to 

 the top, as follows : — 



\ \ \\ \ ni n lllll««/\ \ \\\ - nij::, llnin l , """ , i i iiim" , "" ll "iiiii"" , l f l l ' n' 



NIR M U A&ITESS ICOJfID DATA 



The first three groups of scores are distinct and legible, the fourth 

 and fifth are of unusual form, bearing some resemblance to the scale 

 known as the Ogliam Consoine, this being the only instance where it 

 appears on an actual monument. The stone at this spot is worn and 

 injured, and there may be some doubt as to these characters being 

 coeval with the rest, and not the work of a later hand, acquainted 

 with the Ogham of the AISS., as indeed all the Irish scholars of the 

 south and west of Ireland were. The seventh group is slightly 

 damaged, owing to the crack across the stone, but its value is determi- 

 nable ; the dotted characters are worn and doubtful, the surface being 

 much injured and defaced in that spot ; all the other characters are 

 quite distinct and legible. I have no doubt that an incised stem-line 

 originally existed. It is barely discernible in some places ; it was 

 not straight but serpentine, as shown by the course of the inscription. 

 (See PI. III., Pol. Lit. and Antiq.) 



