64 Recently discovered Ogham Inscription. 



I now guaged the discharge of the main as before, and it gave 

 52-53 cubic feet per minute, or nearly four times the quantity 

 discharged before scraping. 



The total cost of scraper, hatchboxes, &c, &c, and all labour 

 came to ^53 3s. 8d., but with the permanent obstructions 

 removed and the appliances all to hand, the cost of the same 

 work now would probably not exceed £2, and I have recom- 

 mended the sanitary authority to have the work done at least 

 every two years. 



Mr. S. F. Milligan, M.R.I. A., next gave a short communication 

 relative to a 



RECENTLY DISCOVERED OGHAM INSCRIPTION IN 

 COUNTY TYRONE. 



Mr. Milligan said that since the 6th March last he had the 

 pleasure of visiting Castlederg, County Tyrone, which he had 

 referred to on a previous occasion. In that district there are 

 very many antiquities of bygone days in connection with the 

 people who lived in this country before the Christian era. 

 There are only two Ogham inscriptions known in Ulster similar 

 in nature to the one he had found at Castlederg, and a fac-simile 

 of which he exhibited. One is in County Derry, in the townland 

 of Kilderry ; — the other is in the Parish of Kilbride, Co. 

 Cavan, three miles from the town of Oldcastle, on the road to 

 Kilnaleck. This is known to the country people as the Cloch 

 Stuca, and was first made known to archaeologists by our fellow 

 member Mr. Elcock. Even during the Christian era Irishmen 

 had a mode of making known their ideas to one another by ilnes 

 made on wood, which although not as lasting as the tablets of 

 Nineveh, are far more enduring than paper. It is very 

 difficult to decipher these lines — a difficulty which is experi- 

 enced by even the best Irish scholars of the present day. He 

 concluded by stating that it was his intention to forward a copy 

 of the Ogham inscription which he had found at Castlederg to 

 the Royal Irish Academy, where he hoped it would be 

 deciphered, 



