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XI. 



NOTES ON si.imk OUIIAM INSCRIPTIONS, INCLUDING TWO 

 l.lj knti.Y DISCOVERED. 



By PROFESsni: II. A. s. MACALISTER, Litt.D. 



Read Pi bruaiu 11, 1918. Published Janiauy 20, 1U19. 

 BALTING - ' I. WlCKLOW. 



The first inscription of which I have to speak liae been for over forty years 

 in the Academy's possession, but no satisfa "liny has ever been given 



of it. It is a fragment, or rather apair of fragments of granite, evidently 

 belonging to one larg 'out impossible to lit together. A crowbar 



mark in one of the fragmeuts shows thai the stoue has been intentionally 

 iye<L 



The only references to this inscription are as follows: — (I) Brash (Ogam 

 .'/• p. 324): a mere passing allusion to an "incomplete memorial" 



from the neighbourl 1 of Donavd, deposited in the Museum of the Royal 



Irish Academy, ill F erguson (£ I /.• tun i, p. 'i' 1 Bays: " In the stone- 

 fences about Donard fragments of Ogham monumente are numerous, and the 

 names of the farmers who broke them up are remembered." This presumably 

 is primarily a reference to these fragments, and suggests that it may have 

 been Ferguson who discovered them first. Though I have been Beveral times 

 in the neighbour Donard, I have nevei Been any of these "numerous 



fragments" in the fences. 1 1 1] Rhj s, in a paper on th< <h<i m -i 'ascribed Stones of 

 I I: ,S Antiquaries, voL xxxiii, p. 1), under 



No. 29, mentions these twi i without note of provenance, and gives 



his reading k(?)cima< on the firsl fragment, gbi on the second. These 



the only readings that have hitherto I n published of the inscription. 



The Academy register states thai these fragments come from the neigh- 

 bom Baltinglass, and the granite of which they are composed bears 

 this out. The larger fragment measures 2 feet 2 inches by 1 foot 9 inches 



