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facsimile here given, reduced from a rubbing, it will be clear that we have 

 not to deal with a formal inscription. The symmetrical arrangement of the 

 scores, sloping in contrary directions, and for the greater part consisting of 

 groups of two strokes alternating with a single vowel-point, shows that we 

 have to do with an imitation ogham. By this is not meant a forgery, but an 

 ancient attempt to secure for the dead, or for his representatives, the 

 advantages of having an inscribed tombstone, without a real knowledge of the 

 ogham character and its construction. We have several examples of this 

 type of monument, commonly called by the name (first given them by 

 Sir S. Ferguson, I believe) pseudo-Oghams. The stone before us is the best 

 imitation ogham that I have seen. 



14. EusHENS, Co. Mayo. 



I may take this opportunity of recording an ogham that has so far 

 escaped publication, though its existence has been known for several years. 

 It is one of those of which the discovery lies to the credit of Sergeant Lyons, 

 of Athenry. I have not yet seen it, but give the following reading from 

 a rubbing and photograph that Sergeant Lyons has kindly put at my 

 disposal : — 



ALATTOS MAQI R . . . . 



The upper end is fractiu-ed. There are some scores marked as " very 

 doubtful " before the initial A by Sergeant Lyons, and as they are irregular 

 and make no sense, it would seem safe to reject them. The name alattos, 

 though not found before with its sibilant genitive, is quite well established. 

 At Whitefield we have the monument of at.atto ceu battigni ; at Corkaboy 

 we have another reading cattuvvier maqi EITTAV^'ECAS Mucoi allato ; and 

 on the splendid monument at Droumatouk, LiGCSl locid .maqi alloto. All 

 these stones are in Co. Kerry. 



