Conwell — On the Cemetery of Taillten. 



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view of the sculptures upon the stones Nos. 7 and 11, as well as 

 upon the lintel stone over them. No. 7, on the left, measures five 

 feet in height, three feet two inches in width, and one foot in thick- 

 ness : No. 11, on the right, measures five feet two inches in height, 

 four feet four inches in width, and one foot in thickness : and the 

 lintel stone over the entrance is four feet eight inches long, one foot 

 seven inches broad, and one foot thick. No. 30, the stone closing in 

 the entrance to the chamber at the bottom is devoid of sculpture, and 

 measures one foot eight inches in height, the same in breadth, and is 

 six inches thick, leaving an opening over it, or entrance into the cham- 

 ber, of upwards of three feet in height. 



It is deserving of notice that several of tbe lines upon the lintel 

 stone have been supposed by some to be Ogham marks ; but they have 

 been examined in our presence by the Eight Rev. Charles Graves, 

 D. D., Bishop of Limerick, who has so successfully made this occult 

 mode of writing one of the special studies of his life, and they have 

 been pronounced by him not to be Ogham. 



The southern chamber is nearly four feet square, and is covered 

 by a horizontal roofing flag. When the loose stones which had fallen 

 in, by the former uncovering of the central chamber, had been removed, 

 the earth on the floor was found mixed with splinters of burned bones. 

 No other indications of burial were found, showing the state in which 

 the chamber had been left, after some unrecorded plundering of its 

 contents. 



The characters on the first stone on the left, after entering, are 

 here represented; the stone itself measuring three feet seven inches 



in height, four feet in breadth, and six inches m thickness. Projecting 

 slightly over No. 8 will be observed the ends of two other inscribed 



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