. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. t, or the last vestiges of it, and markedit on the Ordnance map ; but the words Liosparkee^ireilig, as interpretedby Dr. Joyce, another eminent Irish scholar, a worthy successor ofODonovan, remain as further confirmation of the existence of the ancientchurch at Glandine before 1650, when the land was granted to Mr. Car-rique. His descendant, in or about 1760, having inherited the estatesof Crotta, near Lixnaw, under the will of a maternal uncle, Henry Pon-sonby, who died childless, the Carriques, assuming the name and arms of MISCELLANE
. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. t, or the last vestiges of it, and markedit on the Ordnance map ; but the words Liosparkee^ireilig, as interpretedby Dr. Joyce, another eminent Irish scholar, a worthy successor ofODonovan, remain as further confirmation of the existence of the ancientchurch at Glandine before 1650, when the land was granted to Mr. Car-rique. His descendant, in or about 1760, having inherited the estatesof Crotta, near Lixnaw, under the will of a maternal uncle, Henry Pon-sonby, who died childless, the Carriques, assuming the name and arms of MISCELLANEA. 65 Ponsouby in addition to their own, abandoned their residence at Glan-dine, and settled at Crotta, which they sold in the present century. Itis to be hoped that the old sites of churches and forts marked on ODono-vans map, but since swept away by ignorant vandals, may be markedon the new Ordnance Sheets as having existed in 1850. All thehistoric and prehistoric remains in this glen ought to be preserved^asNational monuments.—Mary Agistes Tihilly, Parish of Durrow, Kings County.— The accompanyingillustration is taken from a rubbing of a stone found at Tihilly latelywhen the land near the church was being ploughed. I think it will beof interest to add it to those I have already published in the Journal ofthe for the year 1897 (vol. vii., 5th Series : Old Grave-yards ofDurrow Parish), I conclude it was a tombstone from the shape of thestone, but unfortunately there is notrace of an inscription or name ofany kind. The figuring somewhatresembles some of that on the PitzMaurice tombstone from Welch Islandin the parish of Geashill, which ap-peared in Miscellanea (First Quarter,1898). Tihilly owes its foundationto the celebrated St. Pintan Munnu,who founded Taghmon, in the countyWexford, and also gave its name toTaghmon in the county Pintan, we are told, studied fora time under Sinnell, of Cluaininis,an island in Lough Erne, who isdescribed as
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