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well preserved as to encourage the antiquary to conceive hopes of 
making a successful attempt to read them. But just enough remain 
to warrant him in asserting that the monument originally bore a 
bilingual inscription, the Celtic part of which, cut on the edges, bore 
some relation to the part traced in perfectly legible Roman letters 
on the face of the stone. 
Beginning with the latter, I shall afterwards proceed to say the 
little that remains to be said with any certainty respecting the Ogam 
characters. 
The inscription in Roman letters is to be read as follows :— 
PYMPEIVs CARANTORIVS. Professor Rhys, indeed, not taking into ac- 
count that the v and m in the first name form a not uncommon liga~ 
ture, reads it as pynpEIVS. Mr. Westwood and Mr. Brash have done 
the same. This, however, is a matter of small consequence. The 
name indicated was no doubt the Roman name Pompeius. We are told 
by Professor Rhys that it does not appear elsewhere on Welsh ground. 
As to the second name, Carantorius, I do not hesitate to identify 
it with the Celtic name Carantacus, or Carantocus, or Cernachus, ot 
which the Irish equivalent is Cairnech. My argument may be repre- 
sented by the following formula :— 
Carantortius = Carantocus = Carantacus = Cernachus = Cairnech. 
There were two Cairnechs who must be distinguished, both of 
them Britons, and both noticed in Irish Hagiology. The elder is said 
to have been a nephew of St. Patrick, and to have taken part in 
the compilation of the Senchus Mor. A Latin life of him exists in Ms. in 
the British Museum (Vesp. A. xiv., fol. 90), and has been edited by the 
Rey. W.J. Rees, in his Lives of the Cambro-British Saints. Either the 
Latin text is very corrupt, or it has been sadly misread and mistrans- 
lated. However, all that concerns my present purpose is to notice 
that the Latin name of this Ca:rnech was Carantocus, and in one 
passage it appears as Cernachus. He was a native of Cornwall, and, as 
we learn from Dr. O’ Donovan, is still remembered as the patron saint 
of Dulane, in the county of Meath. His day in the Calendars of the 
British and Irish Churches is the 16th of May. He died in Ireland 
most probably towards the end of the fifth century. — 
But there was another Cairnech, of whom a full account has been 
preserved in an ancient and curious document entitled the ‘‘ Miracles 
of Cairnech,”’ incorporated in the Lrish Version of Nennius, as edited by 
Dr.Todd. Although this document has a somewhat legendary character, 
its statements respecting matters of civil history, and the relation- 
ships of the persons mentioned in it, are not to be treated as mere 
inventions, many of them being confirmed by authentic testimonies of 
various kinds. 
The Cairnech whose history is given in it was the son of Saran, 
styled King of Britain. According to a genealogy given in the Book 
of Lecan, Saran was son of Colgan or Colchuo, son of Tuathal, son of 
Fedhlim, son of Fiachra Cassan, son of Colla da Crioch. He probably 
