For the location and discovery, cd. {155}.
Macalister, CIIC I, 153 ( draft).
Inscribed Stones from .. Localities in the Barony of Corkaguiney".
The inscription is "not contiuous" but must probably be "read continuously, that is, round the head and down the opposite angle." The fourth vowel score of the second E of DECCEDA is doubtful, and DECCUDA can be read on Ferguson's paper mould; but Decceda as read by Windele "is more in accordance with the general orthography of this name, so often met with, than Deceuda" [read: *Deccuda]. "The exact space exists for the missing letters" of *MAQI. For Decceda cp. the Gortnagullenagh stone {184} reading "Maqqi Decedda Maqi Catufu"; SICUNAS is "probably the true reading of one of the legends at Lugnagappul {191}, and not STICUNAS". Ferguson's own reading in PRIA 15 is due to the fact that he "appears to have added a portion of the left-hand inscription to the right, thereby depriving the name of its genitive termination, which has been identified by Col. Fox as well as by Windele and" Brash himself.
This stone "lay at the right hand on entering" the Killeen. The inscription "on one side .. repeats the maqqi decedda of Gortnagullenagh" {184}. "The word Decced is not anywhere found in the nominative in these monuments, which may excite some doubt whether it is a proper name." The inscription on the opposite side seems to contain "a pair of names conceived in the possessive formula A's B, as on Curcitt's stone at Kinard" {189}. The names to be arrived at by reading in the two possible directions "are very singular in their apparent meanings".
The inscription belongs to a later time than the preceding ones, but is not later than 500 A.D. Indications of its age are the loss of the desinential S in the first and the development of u > o in the second name.
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