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VI. This characteristic S of the Killeany inscription makes it 

 convenient to notice next Mr. Burchett's cast of the inscribed stone 

 at the Neale, Lord Kilmaine's seat, near Cong. The legend seems to 

 be a proper name : — 



Lonseoian ; 



the form of the S being evidently the same as in the Killeany 

 example. 



VII. That which next claims our attention is the much-can- 

 vassed Incha-guile inscription, engraved by Petrie (Eccl. Arch., 

 p. 164), as — 



Lie Lugnaedon mace I menueh, 

 " The stone of Lugnaedon, son of Limenueh." 



If such were the reading, one would readily accept the conclusion 

 arrived at by Petrie and O'Donovan, that this is the monument of 

 Cruimthar or Presbyter Lugnad, stated to have been son of Pestitutus 

 the Lombard, and Liemania, sister of St. Patrick : for, besides the 

 identity of the names, there is a local historical association, which 

 should lead us to look for traces of Lugnad in this district. Sub- 

 sequent drawings and rubbings, however, have greatly invalidated 

 Petrie's reading. These show that what he took for i, and asso- 

 ciated with menueh, to form, awkwardly enough, the name Lmanuah, 

 is, in fact, an r, and belongs to the preceding group of characters, 

 making with them the word macci. This seems, at present, to be a 

 unique example of the maqi of Ogham legends in the ordinary cha- 

 racter. Other discrepancies have also been disclosed in the Gr and 

 first JS" of Petrie's Lugnaedon. What he has taken for a Gh or rather 

 for the remains of what may have been a normal Gr of the regular 

 Irish alphabet, has been shown to be a boldly-cut and complete 

 character, resembling a reverted Z, which, if in MS., would be 

 considered to be S, but which Lr. Whitley Stokes, coerced by the 

 context, agrees with Petrie, although on different grounds, in ac- 

 cepting as Gr. Lastly, the text, which has been well re-produced 

 in Sir William Wilde's " Lou^h Corrib," 2nd ed., p. 136, shows, 

 instead of the first N of Petrie's Lugnaedon. the letter U converting 

 the name into some form of Lugud, either a diminutive, or, as Stokes 

 regards it, a genitive in agreement with macci. The whole legend 

 would thus appear to read, following the distinctions of its capitals 

 and minuscules, as indicated with great distinctness on the Paper- 

 cast, a photographic reproduction of which (by the autotype process) 

 is annexed (see Plate) : — 



Lie Lugnaedon macci menueh. 



The prospect of reconciling discrepancies seemingly so divergent 

 is certainly somewhat discouraging ; but, having regard to the Ogham 

 taste displayed in the use of macci, and, considering the unconforma- 



