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very fine lines, and is difficult to read, especially towards the end, where the 

 stone is much flaked. I now read this inscription colomagni avi ducuri. 

 The other inscription, on the right-hand angle, is punched in broad and bold 

 lines ; it reads BRUSCO maqi doval^sci. 



9. Barnafeadog, Co. Louth. 



I found this inscription about eighteen or twenty months ago, but deferred 

 publication till I should have an opportunity of re-examining it. I visited it 

 first in the company of Mr Dolan, of Ardee; and it was while examining it 

 as a gallau, or standing stone, of unusual size that the faint Ogham scores 

 caught my eye. I returned to it again with Mr Dolan and Mr Tempest, of 

 Dundalk, on the 10th September last, and confirmed my former reading. The 

 stone is a sandstone, standing in a field close to the road ; it is marked 

 " standing stone " on the 0. S. map, sheet 17. The scores were punched on 

 the eastern angle ; they are so widely spaced that, though the inscription 

 contains only one word and the stone is 8 ft. 6 ins. high, the writing 

 completely fills the inscribed edge. The name on the stone is 



BKANOGBa^I, 



which is new to Ogham nomenclature. A neuter of an ethnic derivative 

 seems to survive in Brannogenion, the name of a town of the Ordovices of 

 North Wales. Other compounds of £ra7i (" raven ") found on inscriptions are 

 Branittos, Rialobrani, etc. 



This is the first Ogham to come to light in Co. Louth. A photograph 

 win be found in the current number of the Louth Archaeological Society's 

 Journal. 



10. Drogheda, Co. Louth (Fig. 1). 



A slab of grit-stone, at present lyiag in the porch of St. Peter's Church, 

 Drogheda. It is said to have been brought thither from Eokeby Hall, whither 

 it had been taken from an old graveyard called Marlay.' It is roughly 

 circular, measuring 2 ft. 7| ins. by 2 ft. 81 ins. in diameter, and 8 ins. thick. 

 The devices are punched, rather roughly, on the face. They consist of two 

 crosses, one of them quite plain, the other ornamentally treated (see the 

 illustration) ; an inscription in two lines, above and below the crosses ; and a 

 circular border-line surrounding the whole. 



The inscription is not easy to understand, and the fantastic forms which 

 the artist has given to the letters, with exaggerated serifs, do not make it any 

 clearer. It is evident that the bottom line is to be taken first, and that the 



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