Ogam Inscriptions in Ireland, Scotland, and ... - House of Dubhros

50 OGHAM INSCRIPTIONSKERRY. cross and an inscription in Roman characters, as well as anOgham legend on the edge remote from the road. Read fromleft to right in the usual manner, it yields the transliterationSOQUQCEAFFMONISOQURI,and remained unexplained until the present Bishop ofLimerick (then Rev. Dr. Charles Graves) perceived that thecharacters are inverted, and that the reading really isor, it may be,Conuneatt maqi Conuri,Conun eattmaqi Conuri.The cross and the Roman letters forbid our thinking of theson of Dari, but it is difficult to dissociate the name from thatof Curoi, Conuri, in the very locality which his exploits andbetrayal have made so famous. The accompanying inscription,in Roman mixed minuscules, seems to spell Fecununi.There is a vertical dash over what has been taken for thec, which may affect the reading. One cannot help suspectingthat it is a tinverted, and that the readingisFeet Cununi."the tomb of Cumin," recallingthe conuneatt of the mainlegend.73. We have thus travelled through a country more thicklyenriched with Ogham remains than any other district of equalextent elsewhere; and perhapsitmay be a relief to looknorthward and eastward as far as the eye can reach from thesummit of Slieve Mish, and learn that throughoutall NorthKerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and even beyond the visiblehorizon in Queen's County, King's County, Longford, Leitrim,and Westmeath, no Ogham legend is known to exist nor has;any been heard of, save, by doubtful report, near Tarbert, inNorth Kerry, and at Rathkeale and Knockfierna, in Limerick,respectively. If, indeed, we looked down in the oppositedirection on the plain of Magonihy, the old Moy O'Conqin,the site of Ptolemy's Concani, extending southward fromSlieve Mish to the Reeks, we should contemplate a field ofabundant material for such matter as has occupied us up tothe present. To this field we shall return in completing the