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XIII. 



OX A EUNIC INSCEIPTION AT KILLALOE CATHEDEAL. 

 By E. a. S. MACALISTEE, Litt. D., F.S.A. 



Read Notember 13, 1916. Published March 21, 1917. 



I CHANCED to spend a couple of days in Killaloe at the end of last June. In 

 returning from an evening stroll with my father, who was staying with me, 

 we both noticed a stone built into the wall of the Cathedral precincts, bearing 

 what appeared to be masons' tool-marks. A certain purposeful appearance 

 of regularity which they displayed caused me to cross the road in order to 

 examine them more closely, when to my astonishment I found that they 

 were the letters of a Runic Inscription. 



The stone is a block, apparently of sandstone : it is built upside-down into 

 the outer face of the enclosing wall of the Cathedral, about 1 ft. from the 

 ground, and midway between the main gate (leading to the west door of the 

 Cathedral) and a green wicket-gate to the left. It is 1 ft. 6 ins. broad at one 



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