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O'Quins. He was far more probably a monk of the monastery.' The stone 

 bears a Latin cross formed of a band doubled along the line of the arms, and 

 interlacing into a knot, founded on the triquetra, at the terminals. The stone 

 of Dainiel (Clonmacnois, Xo. 168) is similar, but differs in the treatment of 

 the intersection. The whole cross is in a single-line panel, below which is 

 the inscription Oil X)0 clumil. The top of the stone is lost; its present 

 length is said to be about 2 feet. I have not seen it. Another illustration 

 of it will be found in " Memorials of Adare," p. 164. 



(82). CIIL 55. The only record of this slab is a rough sketch of Petrie's 

 reproduced in CIIL, loe. cit. It represents a slab with a Greek cross, each 

 arm terminating in two spirals, inscribed in a circle of two lines. An 

 inscription in two lines occupied the two upper cantons. Petrie's copy of this 

 does not inspire confidence ; it is 



Lo-osin [or bo-oSin] 



mo^ti 

 mAc 



The slab is no longer on the island, and had apparently disappeared before 

 the visit of the Board of Works, as it has no place in their report ; neither is 

 it mentioned by O'Conor or by Brash. 



(83). BW, plate 2, underneath fig. a. From this drawing Plate XXIV, 

 fig 4, is adapted. A small slab, measuring about 1 foot 6 inches square, to 

 judge by the scale on the BW plate ; it bore a cross, each terminal ending in 

 a circle containing a dot. in the two upper cantons was a key-pattern. The 

 design was unusual, and the prominence given to the key-pattern rather 

 strange in what appears to have been an early slab. No particulars are given 

 in the report as to its position, and unless it be buried somewhere it is 

 certainly no longer on the island. 



(84 . BW, plate 4, from which Plate XXIV, fig. 5, is adapted. We learn 

 from the BW report that this stone was found near St. Mary's church. From 

 the scale we infer that it measured 3 feet 9 inches long, by 1 foot 9 inches, 

 tapering downward to 1 foot 4 inches. It bore a handsome cross of the same 

 type as Xo. 71, ante, but with a pattern of squares and triangles at the centre 

 It is remarkable that so large a stone should have vanished completely. 



(85). In a rough sketch-map that 0'(."onor adds to his Ordnance Letter,' 

 he marks "the grave of the saints— founders of the place" about midway 



• Possibly the Conn ua Sinnaich recorded by the Annals of Inisfallen, a.d. lOlG, 

 though the design looks as though it might be rather older. 

 - On page 5G7 of the volume. 



