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It seems to me more likely that the X here is to he taken as in the 

 Turpill monument (Crickhowel), for the equivalent of p. If this he 

 so, I would think it not improbahle that the text from " Broinienas" 

 onward may be found to supply an example which would indeed 

 he rare and precious, of something predicated ahout the subject of the 

 insciiption, beyond the merely titular matter which Ogham texts 

 usually supply. 



It is in this view I would desire to attract the notice of Old-Irish 

 scholars to this text, which, if it answer my expectations in this 

 respect, will be found in advance even of " Fiachra the Kneeler " 

 in letting us into the meaning of these legends, and giving us some 

 insight into the conditions of life which produced them. Eut even 

 here a caution is to be premised, originally given to me by the Bishop 

 of Limerick, that in these curious compositions we must be on 

 our guard against affected forms of expression and even of inflection. 



[See the next paper.— Ed.] 





