Barry—On an Ogham Monument in the Co. Cork. 489 
would be the transition to or from Alola, a form which may be seen 
on the Rathcobane stone, if, while rejecting ‘‘the ancient incised 
lines,’”’ mentioned above, one reads as A, the rough shallow notch, 
immediately preceding lola. Repeated examinations, however, of the 
Rathcobane stone tend to efface my first favourable impressions as to 
the oghamic nature of the notch, no less than of the scratches. A last 
hypothesis takes Lola as a complete word, the genitive case of Lul, 
just as Loga from Lug. And the word Lul seems really to have 
existed, as the name Lulach (for whose genitive Lulaig, see Book of 
Leister, p. 518, and 3368) seems formed from it. 
Nore B.—Also, in the Book of Leinster, I have come across a 
nominative form, of the name of which Sdanbi, of the Rathcobane 
Inscription, is a genitive form. It is Staniub, an alas of Fineen, 
ninth in descent from Mugroin, a lord of Offaly, who died in 782, 
according to Dr. Donovan in the Annals :—‘* Cuchocyiche m. lin 
m. Finsuine pope rem in Stomub m. Mupchsoa,” &.— 
““Cucogry, son of Alin, son of Fineen; he was the Staniub, son of 
Murrough,” &c. (Book of Leinster, p. 814, col. 8). The inscription 
then, is—Lola maqi Stanbi, Lul, son of Staniub, though possibly it 
was at first Alola magi Sdanbi, Ailell, son of Staniub. 
