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angle, which had hitherto proved completely baffling. For a length of 

 3 feet 9 inches the angle is worn perfectly smooth, carrying away the name of 

 the owner of the monument. This is the more to be regretted, as we are here in 

 the presence of known personalities. For the inscription on the south-east angle 

 of the stone is certainly maq cokrbri maq ammllongitt. 1 There are two 

 persons called Coirpre son of Amalgaid on record : one the great-grandson of 

 Eochu Muigmeadon, and grandfather of St. Tigernan of Loch Conn ; the other 

 the great-grandson of Dathi. 2 The descendants of the second (who is more 

 likely the " Corrbri " of the stone) are not recorded. 



Turning now to the south-west angle the first letter is certainly L, 7 inches 

 above the ground. Then come some vowel-points followed by a double G. 1 

 had previously read four points, making E, and this was also the reading of 

 Sir J. Ehys ; but I now incline to reading only three, rather widely spaced. 

 The g's are followed by a very doubtful a, 1 foot above ground line. This 

 gives lugga, a name which is followed, I think, by maqi occupying the angle 

 to 2 feet \ inch above the ground. The maqi is followed by a very doubtful 

 c, after which is an 0, quite distinct, the second score being 2 feet 7^ inches 

 above the ground. Then comes a space of 9 inches, room for about six scores, 

 in which the angle is spalled and the scores broken away. Then come three 

 vowel-points, after which the inscription proceeds sdailengesci all quite clear; 

 the last vowel most probably was I, but the angle is fractured, carrying off 

 everything after the second dot. 



Where so much is doubtful we must walk warily. The chief difficulty, 

 apart from the worn part of the angle, is its division into words. If the 

 inscription begins LUGGA maqi, what follows is too long for a single name ; it 

 is longer than anavlamattias and niagkacolinea, which are the two longest 

 names as yet found in Ogham. It is possibly CUNEAS dailengesci, a double 

 name. This is unusual, but not unknown. However 1 fear that the decipher- 

 ment of this angle will never be altogether free from conjecture, owing to its 

 damaged condition. I confess I left it feeling very hopeless of attaining to 

 complete certainty of the reading, lugg . . . SDAILENGESC, with three vowel- 

 points before the s and two after the c, is all that anyone can be certain of. 

 It is not impossible that this part of the monument has been intentionally 

 defaced by someone who had an interest in erasing the name and memory of 

 its owner. 



1 My previous reading, ammllokatta, is wrong. The NO is concealed under thick 

 lichens, and the following I is fractured. There is no vowel after the final T. 

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