Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . munderstand him. The illustrations of these carvings are photographs from Other curious features in these cloisters, are the single lettersincised on many of the pillars ; the order of these letters is lost, asthe pillars on which they are cut had fallen and have been re-erected. MISCELLANEA 179 It is not unlikely that they may have formed an alphabet likethose found on tiles in other places, and used for purposes of instruc-tion ; there is at least no repetition amongst the ten letters whichsurvive.—Henry S. Crawford Some Eighte
Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland . munderstand him. The illustrations of these carvings are photographs from Other curious features in these cloisters, are the single lettersincised on many of the pillars ; the order of these letters is lost, asthe pillars on which they are cut had fallen and have been re-erected. MISCELLANEA 179 It is not unlikely that they may have formed an alphabet likethose found on tiles in other places, and used for purposes of instruc-tion ; there is at least no repetition amongst the ten letters whichsurvive.—Henry S. Crawford Some Eighteenth Century Slabs at Creevelea Abbey.—Several ofthe monuments at Creevelea, though late in date, are of interest invarious ways. The earliest are three 0 Rorke slabs in the chancelof the abbey church. The first of these, which bears the earliestdate in the building (1721), has been published with several othersin the Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorialsof the Dead ; but there is no mention of its peculiar ornamentation,. • 1 j /.root. Fig. 3. Ornament, 0 Boyle Tombstone, Creevelea Inch is probably unique. Across the top is a long panel containingspade, a diamond, a club, and a heart ; the inscription comes next, nd below it a panel with the figure of a wild cat, the well known adge of the 0 Rorkes. (See Fig. 1, p. 177).The second stone is without ornament, but is inscribed— Here Lyeth ye bodyof 0 Rourke Teig McOwen oge who partd yslife Febfy ye 2d 1730 &His wife Una Rourkewho partd ys life iVuGustye 2d 1737 180 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND It is of interest to notice that this 0 Rorke is given his full titlein the Irish form and that the 0 is omitted before his wifes stone seems to have been erected at a time when the use of Nibefore the names of women had become old-fashioned or obsolete,and the custom of using the 0 indiscriminately had not The third stone is that of Thady 0 Rourke, Bishop of Killala,w
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