Ireland I-COR-061

An Cnoc Ramhar | Knockrour 3 (I-COR-061)

Stone ID
I-COR-061
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: Discovered in a burial ground (CO060-040002-) within an enclosure (CO060-040001-) by the tenant farmer Coackley. Presented by the local landlord to the antiquarian John Windele, who visited the site in 1851 (Brash 1879, 133). Two further possible ogham stones (CO060-185----, CO060-187----) are also associated with the site (Power et al. 1997, no. 7994).

Findspot: Knockrour/Oughtihery (An Cnoc Ramhar), Co. Cork, Ireland (ITM Coordinates (approximate): 541859, 580127)

Current repository: England Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford (inv. no. 1884.98.5)

Last recorded location(s): The stone is now in the possession of the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Oxford (Macalister 1906a, 169-172).

Support

National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO060-188----

Object type: Pillar

Material: Stone type unknown

Dimensions: H 0.48 × W 0.28 m

Letters: The execution technique is unknown.

Edition

Critical apparatus:

  1. Brash (1879, 133) read: MUDDOSSA MẠQQA AT 2. Reading the inscription in the opposite direction, Macalister (1945, 112) read: FAANN MAC COLLUM Macalister (1945, 112, no. 111) concluded that ‘the inscription is a forgery’.

References

  • Brash 1879, 133
  • Macalister 1906-06-30, 169-172
  • Macalister 1945, 111-112
  • Power, Byrne, Egan, Lane, and Sleeman 1997, no. 7994
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