Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... singular evidence of the continuing disposition to regard the Killeen as a lawful quarry. 30. 133. Returning westward by Cappoquin at the point where the Blackwater, which up to this part of its course runs from west to east along the base of the Knockmeldown and Galtee Mountains, takes its southern direction to the sea at Youghall, we meet with two new names on a broken Ogham Sorter Bridge pillar preserved in the demesne of Salter Bridge. The legend j2g reads--Omongadias maqi maci bite, or maci biti. The fracture leaves it doubtful if the first be 0 mongadias, but the probability is that the two digits making the o belong to some longer antecedent group. Mongad, however, appears to be son of Macibit, or son of a son of Bit, or Hit. 134. Ascending the valley of the Blackwater to Lismore, formerly a great ecclesiastical school of the Patrician establishment, we find many remains of old Hiberno-Roman inscriptions, but, as in other like cases already noted, nothing Oghamic; and the same observation will apply to Cloyne, the ecclesiastical capital of the rich tract between Youghall and Cork, south of the Blackwater. Nearly central in this tract, however, and thence reaching westwards, begins an almost continuous succession of Ogham sites and monuments extending to Kerry and the Atlantic. At Glenawillen, near Midleton, in the parish of Templenacarriga, in an erased rath-cave were found two stones, now in the Royal Cork Institution, one of which (A) bears the name Colomagni "Colman" with some undeciphered additions--Cork. Olenauillen 05 COLOMAGNiFeroMaGi Feromag, the nearest reduction to which I can bring the Cork. remains of the second name, may be Feramag, Fermoy, or Fermac, a man's name in Oghamic disguise; but so many letters must be guessed at, th...