1875.  Parish of Slanes, Upper Ards, Co. Down, ‘At the time of my visit, a workman wa engaged in deepening the fading letters on an old limestone inscription, to preserve a little longer, from total oblivion, the memory of some obscure name. From Alexander Knox, ‘History of Co. Down’

https://books.google.ie/books/about/A_History_of_the_County_of_Down_from_the.html?id=pZIiAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y

 

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Earliest Irish script in Latin Antiphony of Bangor, 680 AD, Irish Scribes First to use initials for articulating texts, Late Printing in Irish with Kearney’s Catechism 1571, examples of Gaelic Script, Elizabethan 1571 AD, Vatican, 1675 AD, Jacques Guerin 1732 AD, Petrie 1841 SD.

 

Antiphonary of Bangor, Co. Down c.690 ad, Mount Stewart and Nugents of Portaferry.

 

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