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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



XXY. — On an Ogham-inscribed Pillar-stoxe at Monataggaet 

 CorrNTr Cork. By Richard Bolt Brash, M. B. I. A. 



[Read 14th of April, 1873.] 



Being at Monataggart, in the parish 

 of Donoughmore, about fourteen 

 miles X. ~W. of Cork, on the 17th of 

 March last, I, as usual, made in- 

 quiries as to the existence of Stand- 

 ing Stones in the locality, particularly 

 as to those bearing marks or scores 

 on their angles. The farmer, Joseph 

 Twohig, on whose land I then was, 

 informed me that his cousin who 

 held the adjoining farm had taken 

 such a stone as I described, out of a 

 care, as he termed it, in the corner 

 of one of his fields, and had made a 

 gate-post of it. Though late in the 

 evening, I at once set off to examine 

 it, and arriving at the farm-house of 

 Patrick Cogan, I saw a fine, taper- 

 ing pillar- stone, forming the left 

 post of a gate leading into his yard. 

 The stone was encrusted with seve- 

 ral coats of whitewash, through 

 which, however, I could distinctly 

 see traces of a long inscription. It 

 being late in the evening, I was 

 unable to make a proper examination 

 of the stone or to copy the legend : 

 particularly as it would take some 

 time to remove the whitewash. I 

 therefore left word that I would 

 again visit the place, Joseph Twohig 

 undertaking that it should be cleaned 

 according to my directions, with a 

 hard brush and water, and that his 

 cousin should be in attendance to 

 give me the necessary information 

 as to the finding of the stone. 



My second visit was paid on the 

 29th of the same month, when I 

 was accompanied by Mr. James 

 Brennan, Head Master of the Cork 

 School of Art, who takes a deep 

 interest in this class of our antiqui- 

 ties. I found that the stone had 



