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pattern, mutilated by the fracture of the stone, and much worn and scaled. 

 Under this is an inscription in sis lines. The stone is a verj- loose-grained 

 grqnite, and it has disintegrated to such an extent that the inscription, 

 though at first sight it looks plain enough, is in reality all but illegible. I 

 have twice examined it during the summer of last year ; the second time I 

 had the advantage of Prof. MacXeill's company. We made it out to read as 

 follows : — 



OR DO 

 ANLUA 

 OCUS 

 DU COK 



bi;an 



SAIK. 



Or»it do Anlua{n) ociis du Canbran sair — " A prayer for Anluan and for 

 Oubran the wright." It is, however, impossible to be absolutely sure about 

 this or any other reading. The illusti-ation and reading in Petrie's 

 ■' Christian Inscriptions " (vol. ii, p. 61) are certainly wrong. I have been 

 unable to trace any persons of these names that might have been com- 

 memorated by the cross. 



12. DuxLEER, Co. Louth (Fig. 2). 



I am indebted to Mr Dolan and Mr Tempest for calling my attention to 

 this monument, which, so far as I know, has not hitherto been published. 

 It is lying, with a number of other stones, bearing crosses (but no inscriptions) 



Fig. 2. — Inscription at Dnnieer. 

 in a hall attached to the Protestant parish church. It is a slab of sandstone, 

 3 feet 3J inches by 1 foot 8 inches by 2j inches. The end of the stone is 

 broken off, but otherwise the condition is good. This fracture, however, takes 



