Provenance
Discovery: First mentioned in 1894 by Graves and found in ‘Ballinvoher townland’ but name of parish not townland in the barony of Corkaguiney. It may have come from or near Ballinvoher medieval parish church and graveyard in Rathduff.
Findspot: Rathduff? Ballyandreen?, Co. Kerry, Ireland (ITM coordinates: 461262, 603790 (possible orig loc))
Current repository: Ireland National Museum of Ireland (inv. no. RIA1906:205)
Last recorded location(s): NMI (53.340304, -6.255115)
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: KE045-105----
Object type: Pillar
Material: Siltstone
Dimensions: H 1.22 × W 0.47 × D 0.10 m
Inscription
Text field: Vertical, Up. ‘Inscription on the dexter angle and the top … perfectly clear in every score’ (Macalister 1945, 160).
Letters: Pocked in very neat, bold and evenly-spaced strokes. Vowel strokes are wedge shaped.
Edition
Transcription: COIMAGNI MAQI VITALIN
Translation
of Cóemán son of Vitalinus
Commentary
Cóem ‘dear, precious’ and diminutive suffix -agni (>-an(n)), cp. CIIC 71. Ahalisky III, Cork (COIMAGNI MAQI MUCOI G…
VITALIN is the Latin name Vitalinus
This inscription may be dated to the first half of the sixth century based on the loss of the final -I of VITALIN and its preservation in COIMAGNI (McManus 1991, 94-95).
References
- Bennett, Uí Shíthigh, Holden, and Ó Bric 1995, 6
- Cuppage 1986, 252
- Macalister 1897, 46-47
- Macalister 1945, 160
- McManus 1991, 65, 107, 113