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_Irish Letters_ (Vol. ix., p. 246).--The following inscription on the
monument of Lugnathan, nephew of St. Patrick, at Inchaguile, in Lough
Corrib, co. Galway, is supposed to be the most ancient in Ireland:
"LIE LUGNAEDON MACC LMENUEH."
"The stone of Lugnaodon, son of Limenueh."
The oldest Irish manuscript is the Book of Armagh, which contains a copy of
the Gospels, and some very old lives of St. Patrick. (See O'Donovan's
_Irish Grammar_, Dublin, 1845, p. lii.)