MACALiSTicii — Notes on Certain Irish Inscriptions. 87 



As to the verbation of the inscription, the beginning must be anm cokke, 

 or ANM COKKK, according to the value to be assigned to the X charactei-. But 

 we are then confronted with an ambiguity. Are we to read maq vj-uddglomett 

 or MAQV- UDDGLOMETT ? I incline to the latter. The combination of vowels 

 lU in an Ogham word is rare, and uu unheard-of ; though we must, on the 

 other hand, postulate an unprecedented spelling for maqi, namely, maqvu or 

 MAQVi. If this be right, we have another name beginning with udd-, but it 

 is not any more intelligible than uddami or uddjiensa. Can these names be 

 pre- Celtic ? 



Professor MadSTeill, in the note printed above, has commented on the 

 unusual collocation NS in the latter name. The other stone from AghabuUoge, 

 now in the museum of University College, Cork, shows this combination twice 

 over. By most deplorable ill-luck this stone was used by masons as building 

 material in the church of AghabuUoge, and they chipped away nearly all the 

 H-surface, carrying off the H consonants and the vowel-points. By measure- 

 ments of the tips of the B letters and of the spaces between them some 

 approximation to a reading can be obtained ; there is just room for 



. . . NSaMa Netta aNSiLi AVi dettas, 



the capital letters denoting those characters which still exist in part, the 

 minuscules those which can be inferred from the spaces. The L might be a 

 G, but otherwise there is no doubt as to the reading of the surviving letters, 

 and the restoration suggested is at least the most probable. 



7. Knockoean, Co. Cork. 



A couple of years ago I examined this stone with the scholar whose recent 

 death we all deplore, the late Sir John Ehys. We agreed in reading the latter 

 part of the inscription as Brash had taken it, maqi ailluattan ; but Sir John 

 Rhys noticed an M before the opening word that had never been observed before, 

 with a space after it that probably held five vowel-points. The inscription, 

 therefore, begins minnaccakni, not annaccanni. At my recent visit to Cork I 

 confirmed this reading. The whole inscription is thus minnaccanni maqi 

 AILLUATTAN. No One looking at this stone with an unprejudiced eye can 

 possibly doubt that the cross has been added to it at a date later than the 

 inscription. 



8. Glennawillen, Co. Cork. 



At the same time I corrected my previous copy of the two inscriptions on 



the Glennawillen stone, also in the College Museum. It is a very interesting 



case of the later appropriation of an Ogham stone for another inscription, 



unconnected with the first. The inscription on the left-hand edge is cut in 



