186 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



XXVIII. — On two Ogham-Inscribed Stones from Ttnnahally, Co. 

 Kerry. By Eichard Bolt Brash, M. E. I. A. 



[Read December 8, 18737] 



The Megalithic Department of our Museum has recently received some 

 important additions, through the instrumentality of our respected 

 hrother Academician, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, consisting of a number 

 of Ogham-inscribed stones, lately in possession of the widow of the 

 late Mr. John "Windele. Two of these memorials I have now the 

 honour of bringing before the notice of our Academy. In 1848, Mr. 

 J. Windele, being on an antiquarian tour in Kerry, stopped at Mr. 

 Foley's inn, atKilorglin, where he was shown by the proprietor an 

 Ogham-inscribed stone, which he stated had been found in a rath on 

 his farm at Tinnahally, parish of Kilorglin (Ordnance Map, sheet 57). 

 Subsequently, another was found in the same spot ; and both were 

 removed by Mr. "Windele to his residence, near Cork, where I first saw 

 and copied them. The rath was named Lisnareabah, 



Xo. 1. 



This is a fine monolith, of a hard, compact clay-slate, measuring 

 7 ft. 6 in. in length, 15 in. by 6j in. at bottom, and 13 in. by 9 in. at 

 top. The inscription commences on the left angle, continues round 

 the head, and down the opposite angle of the same face. The characters 

 are all well cut and legible, with a few exceptions, as follows: — 



■i mi" ll / iii "# , - ll ll J r Mui i m i i/'" i n '= Bl "'-ii-"/ i i i i i i i i i 



A N C M F IT R TJDDR ANNMAQTTICTILIG E I S 



The first score of the I in maqi is on the left angle, close to the top, and 

 the other four were on the head of the stone, and are obliterated ; the 

 c which follows is also on the head of the stone, very much worn, and 

 now scarcely traceable, at least in the light afforded by their present 

 location in the crypt of the Academy House. When I copied it 

 in the open air at Mr. Windele' s residence, this letter was quite 

 legible. Between the a and e is a space of 5| inches, now void, and 

 showing a spawl knocked off. This may have been an original frac- 

 ture, and may have been passed over by the engraver. The entire 

 reads as follows : — 



ANCM FURUDDRANN THE SON OF CUXIGENN 



The first four characters are a crux. The formula an and anm have 



