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assert that the monument under consideration, known as St. Olan’s 
Stone, was the monument of Maccorbius, the teacher of St. Finnbarr. 
And this is in accordance with the Ogam inscription which the stone 
presents. J read it thus :— 
ANM CORRPMAQ SUIDD .. . M[ |PTT. 
The original drawing, made by Mr. Richard Hitchcock, and com- 
pared by myself on the spot with the inscription on the monument, 
exhibited three distinct strokes following the a, and a fourth faint one 
where the stone appears to have been injured by abrasion. There is 
exactly room for the fourth stroke of an s between its third stroke and 
the first of the uv... After the pp there is room for about ten strokes. 
There may have been some vowel strokes on this part of the edge. 
But there is no appearance of consonantal characters on either face of 
the stone. After this space comes what I take to be um.” After it I 
read a, with some, but very little, doubt. Across the second 7 a line 
was drawn as if to cancel it. I cannot remember to have seen any 
other example of this mode of effacing a character, and I therefore 
suspect that this cross stroke ought not to be taken account of as part 
of the inscription. 
There is difficulty in dealing with the final part of the inscription. 
It appears to end with aprr, which may mean apait, abbatis. This 
conjecture is supported by the fact that I can refer to another Ogam 
inscription which appears to end with aprr coming after a proper 
name. 
When first I recognized this formula anu, with which this and seve- 
ral other Ogam inscriptions commence, I expressed my belief that it 
stood for the word anmain. A prayer for the soul of the deceased was 
the commencement of many ancient inscriptions, and on that account 
this explanation may be regarded as more probable than any other. But 
I do not cling to it with obstinacy. As we have seen that ancient 
Trish writers constantly speak of a man’s Ogam name being inscribed 
on his sepulchral monument, I am prepared to admit that the formula 
ANM may represent the word aimim. Each legend commencing thus 
would in that case mean the [Ogam] name of the person com- 
memorated. 
The next part of the inscription is coprpmae, which I take to be 
equivalent to maccornu. Such transpositions of the parts of compound 
names were not unexampled. 
This is followed by surpp, which I take to be the genitive case of 
suid (sapiens), with the final letter aspirated by duplication. 
1 Sir Samuel Ferguson, who has kindly allowed me to see his transcript and 
paper mould of the text, reads r where I read s, and regards FuIpDD as equivalent to 
FuIT, or the pot (qwi fuit), to which I was the first to direct attention as a formula 
occurring in other Ogam inscriptions. 
2 Here Sir Samuel Ferguson reads c. I question this reading, because there is 
no sign of the first oblique stroke of the a having crossed the edge of the stone. 
