292 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



XLV. — On Further Ogham Inscriptions discovered at Monataggart, 

 Co. Cork. By Samuel Ferguson, LL. D., Q. C, a. Yice-President. 



[Read December 14, 1874.] 



Referring to the description of the chamber or cist from which the 

 " feqreq" stone was extracted (see p. 174), it will not be matter of 

 surprise to the Academy, when I announce that two other Ogham- 

 inscribed pillars have been raised from the same spot. 



It is to the Rev. Dr. Quarry, Rector of Donoughmore (in which 

 parish the lands of Monataggart are situated, we are indebted for this 

 discovery. It was on his suggestion Mr. Cogan, the occupier of the 

 lands, made the further explorations the results of which are now 

 before us. A full description of the place and circumstances of the 

 discovery has been communicated to the Academy by Dr. Quarry. 

 (See preceding paper). My share in any addition to our knowledge 

 to which these monuments may be conteibutory will, for the present, 

 consist in a brief transliteration of the legends on the two new 

 examples, with some observations which may serve to clear the 

 ground for a fuller examination of the meaning of the longer of 

 the two. 



I begin with the smaller stone, bearing the shorter and more easily 

 read legend : — 



DALAGNI MAQI DALI. 



These characters are clearly cut, and all legible, notwithstanding 

 that the stone has been broken in two. The fractured edges fit 

 exactly, so that, though the crack traverses a vowel-notch, the 

 respective sides of the indentation are quite apparent. In reference 

 to the principal name, compare Talagni at Kinard West, Dingle ; 

 and observe, if we take Bali as a proper name, that the same conver- 

 tibility of t and d will identify it with Tal, the form in which we 

 recognise it in Mac Tail (Q. M., 548). 



The second of these monuments is of larger dimensions, and 

 contains, inscribed on one angle, and extending partly over the top, 

 a legend of unusual length, and which I hope will be found to furnish 

 a text of unusual interest and significance for competent interpreters. 

 This stone is in appearance much the same kind of pillar as its 

 companion, which bears the name " feqreq." Like it, its position 

 under ground has led to the preservation of most of its characters 

 in perfect sharpness, and of all in a practicably-decypherable 

 condition. 



The text reads upward, from left to right, in the usual course of 



