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in the territory of Ui Liathain, now the baronies of Barrymore, 
Imokilly, and Kinnatalloon, in the very centre of which territory 
are the death memorials of Ailill M‘Sdanbi. That one was Ailill 
Tassach, son of Eochaid Liathan, and third cousin of St. Patrick’s. 
convert, Cingus, king of Cashel. 
Ailill M‘Sdanbi must have died since the birth of Christ; for, in 
oghams of a date little anterior to the birth of Christ, Ailola would 
have been Ailolas, ike Lugudeccas, Cunanetas, &c. 
In the same stage of development or decay of the Irish language 
as that to which Ailola belongs, were that stage uniform as regards s 
of the nominative, and s of the genitive case ending, the nominative 
of Magi should be Mago, or, as it certainly is on the Ballyquin 
inscription, nominative Moco, for which is Magu on one of the Drom- 
loghan stones. Similarly the nominative of Sdanbi should be Sdanbo. 
Later on, when Mago, Macco, Moco, Magu, &c., became Mac and 
Mag, Sdanbo would have been shortened to Sdanb or Sdanbh, lke 
Banbh, Tarbh, Borb, Corb, &c. In O’Reilly’s Ivish-English dic- 
tionary the nearest word to Sdanbi is stan, 7tsn, dm, from Latin 
stannum, in which last form the second ” probably represents some 
assimilated letter, possibly B. 
Initial § is often lost, as in the case of Latin stannum, in German 
zimn, and in English fim. Were the initial S of Sdanbi lost, the 
remainder of the word would differ little, in sound at least, from 
tanbi, an Irish word in the Serglige Conculand—a word not yet 
translated. 
NOTES ADDED IN THE PRESS. 
Nore A.—Since this Paper was put to Press, I have seen at the 
Museum of the Royal Irish Academy the Ballyhank inscription, read 
as ‘‘Alal moqi Forartigurn,” by Mr. Brash (Ogham Monuments, p. 
141). The first word, which, however, is not Alal, but Alala, from 
its similarity to ‘‘ lola” of the Rathcobane Inscription, claims notice 
here. Mr. Brash says: ‘‘ This stone was much reduced from its 
original form and dimensions for the convenience of carriage”’ 
(pp. 141-2). And so below the first score of the inscription the 
stone now extends only half an inch, a margin insufficient to show that 
the inscription always began where it now begins, and that Alala is 
neither incomplete at the beginning, nor compounded of Lala, and the- 
last score of the last character of some preceding word, such as maqi. 
Assuming, however, that in reducing the stone, the inscription was 
not reduced, and that Alala is as complete as its sculptor intended, it 
may be a form of what usually is written Ailella, or Oilella; for Dr. 
O’ Donovan (LJrish Grammar, page 17) gives a form of the nominative 
‘* Aulell,”? which points to an earlier Alull, whose genitive would be 
Alolla, whence the transition to Alala would be easy. Still easier 
