Graa'es — An Ogam Monument found in Co. Kerry. 379 



YI. Coeman of Enach Truim in Leix.^ He was commemorated 

 on l^ovember 3, and is said by Marianus Gorman to have been the 

 brother of St. Caoimhghen of Glendalough, probably on the authority 

 of the commentator on the Felire in the L. Breac. He flonxished in 

 the middle of the sixth century. 



YII, Coeman Brec of Eos-each in Heath.- He was of the race of 

 C'onaire, son of Mogh Lamha. He died, according to the Four 

 Masters, in 614, and was commemorated on September 14. 



I have not attempted to identify the Coeman of the inscription 

 with any of the Coemans enumerated above. But I have gathered 

 these notices in the hope that some Irish hagiologist, more sanguine 

 than I am as to the possibility of disentangling the confused mass of 

 Coemans, may light upon some clue to a connection between one of 

 them and the race of Eitalin.^ I only claim to have shown that this 

 monument, rude as it is, and bearing on it no Christian emblem, 

 presents evidences which, far from denoting a pre-Christian antiquity, 

 accord with the views of those who believe, as I do, that these monu- 

 ments belong to the Christian period — in fact, for the most part to a 

 time between the fifth and the seventh century. 



^ Mart. Don., Xov. 3 ; Stokes, Fel. clxii., clxviii. 



2 Mart. Don., Sept. 14 ; Stokes, Fel. cxxxvii., cxlv. 



^ Notices of some of the Coemans 'svill he found in Shearman's Loca Patricianay 

 pp. 160—162, and 178. Though some of his identifications appear to me very 

 douhtful, his remarks upon the intercourse hetween. the ecclesiastics settled near 

 "Wexford and their brethren in Wales are interesting in connection -nith the inscrip- 

 tion now before us. 



