[23] And also in the Book of Leinster.
[24] “Ogham Inscribed Monuments.”
[25] Page 373.
[26] The Scottish Ogham stones, or at least some of them, certainly bear Christian symbols. See Anderson’s Lectures, 2nd Series, Lecture V.
[27] Dr. Graves has proved that this score or key of the Ogham is correct by a priori reasoning, showing what ought to be the value of the symbols from the frequency of the recurrence of the letters which they represent in old Irish.
[28] So vivid is the local tradition that a poor woman came and showed me the very spot on which the King was slain beside the well at which he stopped his horse to snatch a drink.
[29] It was A.D. 218 according to Tighernach.
[30] See O’Curry’s Lectures, vol. ii., page 14, and Keating, Reign of Tuathal Teachtmar.
[31] See Petrie’s Antiquities of Tara Hill, p. 129.
[32] i.e. The Book of the Ua Chongabhail. kept probably in ancient times at Kildare.