Barry—On an Ogham Monument in the Co. Cork. 487 
All the scores of -lola Maqi Sdanbi are certain. The six scores, 
immediately preceding the final I, have to be read NB sat rather 
than SL srr PF oor LS ara oF BN tmr 3 because the 
interval between the last two adjacent scores is the widest, being 
one-tenth wider than that between the first, or the second, or the 
fourth two, and fully one-fifth wider than that between the third two. 
Of the scores before ‘‘lola’’ I noticed none on the first day on which 
I examined the stone, nor on the second, though each day I searched 
for them on the hypothesis that ‘‘lola” was only part of what in the 
Trish of books and manuscripts is Ailella or Oilella, genitive singular 
-of Ailill or Oilill, one of the best-known early Irish names of men. 
On my third visit, which had for object the taking of a paper cast of 
the inscription, Mr. M‘Grath pointed out to me three ancient incised 
lines, and a rough notch, as, in his opinion, part of the inscription. 
Preyiously I had searched for scores along the line of junction of the 
smooth and scaly surfaces, which line I had too inconsiderately taken 
to be throughout identical with the angle-line of the stone, the flere 
of the inscription. On close inspection, however, that line of 
junction is seen not to cross the scores equivalent to O, as should the 
flesc, but to skirt their left extremity. Next, instead of touching, 
it keeps off two-thirds of an inch from the scores equivalent to L 
No. 1, and must have kept still further off when the scaling was less. 
Certainly, then, this line, which possibly had no existence till the 
scaling began, is not here the flese of the inscription. From the 
extremity of L No.1 the true line of inscription runs across a fissure 
to where are the scores first recognized by Mr. M‘Grath; but there, 
from some cause or other, the angle-line has been so bevelled and 
levelled, that of the six or seven vowel notches originally there barely 
the bottom line remains of three, with wider but rougher, and not 
more distinctly oghamic, traces of another. Between every two 
adjacent scores of these there is an interval of 1# inch, which is 
double the interval between the fourth of them and the adjacent 
score of L, or between the two scores of the character equivalent to 
O, and more than double nearly every other interval between adja- 
cent scores in the inscription. This double width of interval forbids 
the combination of the four into one character—E. By supplying a 
score for each of the three double intervals we should in all have 
seyen, which might be read HE that is Oi, spelled with which 
diphthong the name Oilill appears twelve times in the Index to the 
Annals of the Four Masters. By leaving unfilled the first double 
interval, by way of separating one yowel character from the other, 
we should have six, thus: +e, that is Ai, the diphthong with 
which the name appears forty times in that Index. 
In the Book of Genealogies in the Book of Leinster, Ailills are too 
numerous to count. But amongst them is no Ailill M‘Sdanbi. Only 
one of the Ailills there might be said with probability to have resided 
