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CIIC 146. Ballineanig (Originally Reask/AN RIASC), Co. Kerry.

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Transliteration

LỤGỤQṚỊT MAQ̣[I]/ QRITTỊ

Translation

'of Luccreth son of Creth'

Commentary

Compound of Lug and -creth (McManus 1991, 103), cp. CIIC 68. Kilcaskan, Cork (LUGUQRIT ... LONAS); CIIC 207. Kilcoolaght II, Kerry ( ... ]ECC MAQI L[UGUQ]RRIT); CIIC 57. Greenhill I, Cork (TRENU MAQI MUCOI QRITTI) - Crothrige? (McManus 1991, p 111)

Labialised guttural /k\w// preserved in QRIT(TI), related to cruth 'form' (McManus 1991, 121).

McManus (1991, p 113) notes this inscription as an example of the repetition of an element of the father's name in the son's.

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