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North Side Pillar, No. 4. —This also is an irregularly-shaped slab, 

 standing on its smaller end, which position must have been its original 

 one. It is in length 3 feet 7 inches; 1 foot 10 inches by 8 inches at 

 its largest end, and 5 inches by 5 inches at its smaller. The inscrip- 

 tion commences at 1 foot 2 inches from the bottom, and continues 

 round a portion of the top. 



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The introduction of the character expressing the double consonant 

 st I cannot account for. I have found the double consonant ng in 

 a similar position on another Ogham monument ; whether they are 

 errors of the engraver, or have a peculiar signification, must remain for 

 further investigation. 



The name Deago on this monument is a singular one, which I have 

 failed to identify among our ancient names. It is, however, a re- 

 markable fact, that it is found on one of the monuments in the Cave 

 of Dunlo, county of Kerry ; and still more remarkable, in connexion 

 with the same tribe name. The inscription from Dunlo is as fol- 

 lows : — 



-U— H-H — j-| — H — j— 1 — LLU-I — H+H — j— ll-l -IW-ll lllll 



D E G 0 M A Q I MUC 0 I 



" DEGO MAQT MTJCOI," &C. 



The constant recurrence of the tribe name of Muc, in its various 

 forms, is worthy of observation. I have not noticed any other repeated 

 but this. On one of the Ballintaggart monuments we have " Moc- 

 coe;" on a lintel stone in St. Seskinan's Church, county of Waterford, 

 we have " Muc from a pillar-stone at Burnham House, county of 

 Kerry, "Muce;" on two of the Drumlohan we find it is " Mucoi 

 and on one " Muco." The name is evidently that of a tribe very 

 widely diffused, from the extremity of the county of Kerry to that of 

 Waterford, and found also on a monument at Placus, county of Cork. 



