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Lough Corrib : its shores and islands ; with notices of Lough Mask (1872)

Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876 · Dublin : McGlashan & Gill · leaf 236

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ation,taken from a carefully maderubbing. These charactersare perhaps the oldest let-ters that have yet been dis-covered in Ireland, and areevidently of greater anti-quity than those upon theInchangoill monument. Mr.J. OB. Crowe reads this de-notative inscription thus:—Lon Fecnan, Ecclesia Fecnan,… … 242 THE FOURTH DAvs FIGHT. mitted have not as yet thrown more light upon its interpreta-tion. Of the antiquity of this inscribed monument there canbe no doubt. It is said to have been brought here from theold church of Brefy, below Castlebar.* The mode in whichthe letters were picked out, possibly…

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