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so marked. The protractions are sufficiently visible at the commence- 

 ment of the group, hut become less distinct at its termination. Still 

 they are there ; so that, in at least one course of reading, the group 

 bears the appearance of having been intended to sound Mark a sound 

 that may have more signification if we associate with it the .vowels 

 immediately following, Mariai. But, in doing so, we should trench on 

 the commencement of Aillittar (or whatever other sound the last com- 

 bination of digits may represent), unless it be that in this, as in other 

 kinds of sepulchral and titular writing, the use of "iterates" has been 

 practised, that is of letters serving the double purpose of terminating 

 one word and beginning the next, as, in numismatics, Edgarex = Edgar 

 Rex. Then, whether Mari alone should serve to express the name, 

 or whether a double reading be intended, the tenor of the whole, 

 assuming that some form of Ailiter is before us, would go to com- 

 memorate some " Pilgrim of Mary , " or "Pilgrim of the Son of Mary," 

 viz : — 



Annacanni Magi Mari Aillittar - Annaccann\_us\ Filii Maria? Peregriuus. 



This interpretation will disclose more clearly the sense in which I 

 sometime ago — although to an audience who did not seem to appre- 

 hend its relevancy — suggested the Maqi to be used, in the equally 

 significant legend : — 



Togittacc Maqi Sagarettos, 



Toyitacm* Filii Sacerdos.\ 



I submit a cast, and a photogram from the cast, of the original, that 

 the Academy may judge with its own eyes whether the peculiar fea- 

 tures I have described really exist or not ; and I invite such of the 

 members as may be willing to venture into the crypt at this season, to 

 make a careful inspection of the group of digits on the Tinahally stone, 

 which I conceive exhibits the same singularity of arrangement. The 

 Tinahally pillar will be found rested on the further trestles in the first 

 bay on the right. It will also be proper to compare the reproductions 



5 This name, Togittacc, appears in agreat variety of Oghamic forms, thestudy of which 

 might possiblv tri ve grounds for determining whether these or the MS. forms, Toicthrg and 

 Toicthuic are the earlier. See observations on the name, in a letter addressed by the 

 writer in 187*2 to Mr. Prim, and published in the Journal of the Royal Hist, and Archteol . 

 Assoc, of Ireland, 4th ser., Vol. II., p. 229, to which I would add a further example of its 

 application to a female, furnished by the acuteness of Mr. Rhys, who, in his recent 

 inspection of inscribed stone monuments in Wales (including no less than fifteen Oghamic 

 hiliterals), clears up the old Tunc Cetace vxsor Daari hie jacit, at St. Nicholas, near 

 Fishguard, by observing : — " The stone reads Tunccetace uxsnr Daari hie jacit. This 

 lady's name would now be Tynghedog. . . . The attempt to reduce tunc, taken to be the 

 Latin adverb, to a compatibility of tense with jacit, is quite uncalled for." I cite the 

 reprint from the Qirnarvon and Denbigh Herald of November 29th, and December 6th 

 1873, and take this occasion of expressing my respect for the great learning and zeal 

 exhibited in this valuable contribution to British palaeography. 



f If Sagarettos be a genitive, the foundation of this speculation fails, so far as it 

 rests on the Cahirnagat legend. Are these os terminations, genitives or nominatives ? 



