Ireland I-KER-102 CIIC 231

An Chúil Thoir | Cool East 1 (I-KER-102)

Inscription

[LOGI]TI MAQI ERPENN

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Stone ID
I-KER-102
CIIC Ref.
231
Country
Ireland
This record is drawn from the OG(H)AM corpus — the authoritative scholarly database of Ogham inscriptions, compiled by a team of epigraphers, archaeologists, and linguists. Transcription conventions and dating follow established epigraphic standards.

Provenance

Discovery: 1879 Brash

Findspot: Cool East (An Chúil Thoir https://www.logainm.ie/en/22424/); Kildreenagh burial ground (Cill Draighneach https://www.logainm.ie/en/1416148), Co. Kerry, Ireland (ITM coordinates (approximate): 437699, 575865)

Last recorded location(s): in situ (standing in the SE quadrant of the burial ground)

Support

National Monuments Service SMR ID: KE078-009003-

Object type: Cross-carved pillar

Material: Slate

Dimensions:

Inscription

Text field: Inscription on the left angle of the wetern face. 2x crosses: O’Suillivan and Sheehan: ‘the final strokes of the second N appear to have been abbreviated by the addition of a cross to the WSW face, which is of Latin type with large, bulbous terminals. On the other face of the stone is a roughly equal-armed cross with expanded terminals’.

Letters: Boldly pocked though worn. Possible use of the I-forfid (for P?) on the face.

Edition

Transcription: [LOGI]ṬTI MAQI ERPENN

Critical apparatus:

  1. Perfect when Macalister first read it but since damaged. First 4 letters now below ground level (O’Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, no. 940).

References

  • Macalister 1945, …
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Visiting the An Chúil Thoir | Cool East 1 (I-KER-102) Ogham Stone

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