107 



The characters are clearly cut, and perfectly legible, so that there 

 is no difficulty in determining their values. The inscription appears to 

 me to commemorate two individuals, and I read it as follows : — 



"iTANTJ, SON" OF UNOGA ; TIMOCE, SON OF AEB." 



These names are of a peculiar type, not 'found in our annals and 

 pedigrees, but are quite consistent with the names usually found on 

 Ogham monuments. The equivalent for "Son of" varies from the 

 usual formula of " Maqi connecting the first two names, it is " Mag ;" 

 in the second instance it is the common form of " Mac." I would here 

 remark that, while "Maqi," the genitive of Mac, is the form most ge- 

 nerally used in these inscriptions, the word in all its inflections is 

 found also on them: thus we have "Maqu," "Maqo," "Maqe," 

 "Maq," and frequently "Maqqi," also occasionally "Moc" and 

 "Magu." 



These names I have failed to identify in any of our ancient records 

 to which I have access. In the " Annals of the Four Masters" I find 

 two names that have some family resemblance to that of the first on 

 the monument; they are those of Mantan, slain by Eremon at the 

 battle of Ereogan; 3506; and Manach, a priest and woodman to St. 

 Patrick, A. D. 448. 



Roofing Slab, No. 4. — This stone is of irregular shape and dimen- 

 sions, and is five feet three inches in length, and seventeen inches by 

 ten inches in the centre ; it has two lines of characters on the upper 

 angles, which were consequently concealed until the superincumbent 

 earth was removed from the top of the chamber. The inscription com- 

 mences on the front angle at two feet ten inches from the end of the 

 stone, as follows : — 



CALTINGFI Q 



It is then taken up at the opposite angle, commencing two feet from 

 the end, as follows : — 



[ilHH-nml-H^ 



1 



" ii nil 









i ij.iiiii W ii — ^ 



MAQ, IMUCOILITO F 



There is a fracture at the top of this stone between the letters 0 

 and F, where probably one or two characters were inscribed. I have 

 attempted a rendering of this inscription, which I submit to the judg- 

 ment of those learned in Oghamic lore : — 



" SLEEPS TJNOFIC, SON OF MTTCOI, [uNDEE THIS] STONE, MUTE" [oe] " IN 



SILENCE." 



" Cal," according to O'Brien and O'Reilly, is sleep, slumbers; 

 " Li" is obviously a stone, a flag; "To, Toi," according to the same 

 authorities, is silent, mute, dumb. 



E. I. A. PEOC VOL, X. . Q 



