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NOTES ON" CEETAIN lEISH INSCPJPTIONS. 



By PEOFESSOE E. A. S. MACALISTEE, Litt.D. 



Plate VI. 



Eead 24 January. PuUislied 10 April, 1916. 



During the summer of last year I had opportunity of examining a number 

 of inscriptions, and made certain observations which I desire to bring before 

 the Academy. As it happened, most of the inscriptions that came under my 

 notice are extremely difficult to deal with. 



1. Knockshanwee, Co. Coek. 



I have carefully re-examined this series of inscriptions, now making a 

 brave show in the corridor of University College, Cork. I am glad to be able 

 to say that 1 have found nothing to modify in the readings contained in my 

 paper on this important series of monuments.' I need only note that I am 

 now certain that the name on the stone numbered 4 is culeigai, and not the 

 alternative there given, cubbeigai. Moreover, I now doubt whether the 

 inscription is imperfect after all. Jt seems at first sight to read, as I gave it 

 in my previous paper, culeigai maqi menu maqi .... which implies that a 

 name has been lost from the top of the stone ; and while this reading is still 

 possible, it may be that the last two words are really one, and that we are to 

 read menumaqi as a name. 



2. Kilmaeteajn'n, Co. Coek. Plate VI. 



About nine years ago I discovered an Ogham stone in a rath-cave on a 

 townland called, on the 0. S. map (6-inch, sheet 50), " Kilmartin Lower." 

 The real name of the place is, however, Kilmartrann, if we may trust local 

 pronunciation. In the position of the stone it was impossible to read more 

 than the first few letters, but these were such as to excite a lively desire to 

 know how the inscription finished. I am now able to complete the 

 inscription, having uncovered it with the invaluable co-operation of the 

 Eev. Professor Power, of University College, Cork. The stone is a clay- 



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