Ferguson and Graves — Monataggart Oghams. 297 



"The inscription ends with the name ttrenalvgos. This is no doubt 

 the proper name Trenloga, with the initial t doubled, and the Oghamic 

 termination os. Names compounded with tren (fortis) as a prefix are 

 common. So also are names ending with loga. Thus we have Tren- 

 fear, Finloga, Dubloga, &c. One of the Dunloe Ogbams furnishes an 

 example of the duplication of an initial t in Macui Ttail. 



" In fine, my interpretation of the inscription is this : — 



. . . of Brennain who was the champion of Trenloga. 



I ought to add that niath is also explained as a murderer or homicide. 

 "The brevity and incompleteness of these notes make them hardly 

 deserving of the attention of the Academy. I venture, however, to 

 offer them in the belief that my explanation of the word poi is an im- 

 portant contribution to our small stock of Ogham formula?. — Believe 

 me to be, my dear Ferguson, ever yours faithfully, 



" Charles Limerick." 



This view of Bishop Graves, which, if ultimately accepted, will 

 add another word to our Ogham vocabulary, is one that had not pre- 

 viously occurred to me, and now comes before my mind with all the 

 force of novelty as well as of probable truth. Bemenibering the sig- 

 nificant statement of MacCurtin that the cryptic class of Oghams con- 

 veyed meanings stigmatizing the vices of the deceased, coupled with 

 what we know of the use of humiliatory names in religion, we would 

 have some inducement to apply Bishop Graves's construction in the 

 present instance as the copula in a sentence whicb in one sense might 

 express the crime of Broinien, or which in another might affirm 

 that he who is here called Broinien had formerly borne another name. 



[Other communications on the same subject, read on this occasion, \riU appear 

 hereafter. — Ed. J 



