Ireland I-KER-043 CIIC 175

Baile an Ghóilín | Burnham (I-KER-043)

Inscription

MAQQIERCCIA MAQQI MUCOI DOVINIA

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Stone ID
I-KER-043
CIIC Ref.
175
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: The original site of this stone is unknown. It was included in Lord Ventry’s 19th-century collection of ogham stones at Burnham House, now Coláiste Íde, in the townland of Burnham West and barony of Corkaguiney (Cuppage 1986, 254; Macalister 1945, 167-168).

Findspot: Burnham East (Baile an Ghóilín), Co. Kerry, Ireland (ITM coordinates: )

Last recorded location(s): Coláiste Íde (Dingle Peninsula). The stone was recorded for the Ogham in 3D project in 2017 by Kathleen Reen, a participant on the Corca Dhuibhne 3D project.

Support

National Monuments Service SMR ID: KE053-012001-

Object type: Pulvinar

Dimensions: H 1.02 × W 0.38 × D 0.33 m

Inscription

Text field: The inscription runs up-top-down.

Letters: ‘The scores are of small size, those of the vowels and the consonants being of about the same length, and distinguished by position only… The engraver had to reduce his exuberant double consonants toward the end of the inscription for want of space’ (Macalister 1945, 167-168). ‘Many of the scores are extremely faint and only the last word can now be traced in full’ (Cuppage 1986, 254).

Edition

Transcription: MAQQIERCCIA MAQQI MUCOI DOVINIA

Translation

Of Mac-Erce son of the descendant of Duibne

Commentary

The loss of final -S in DOVINIA and probably MAQQI-ERCCIA suggests dating this inscription to the first half of the sixth century (McManus 1991, 95, 97).

MAQ(Q)I- (gen. of MAQQAS), as a first element meaning ‘devotee’ or the like, rather than ‘son’, and Erc? (a divine name) ‘heaven’ or ‘cow’? (McManus 1991, 107-109).

cp. CIIC 125. Rooves More II, Cork (MAQI-ERCIAS MAQI VALAMNI); CIIC 169. Ballyeightragh, Kerry (MAQI-LIAG MAQI-ERCA); CIIC 178 Coomeenole, Kerry (ERC MAQI MAQI-ERCIAS MU DOVINIA); CIIC 205. Derrygariff, Kerry (S … BNAG M[AQQ]I-RC̣IA ); CIIC 262. Seemochuda, Waterford (ERCAGNI MAQ[I-ERCIAS]).

All but one of the inscriptions containing the tribal name DOVINIAS (‘of Duibne’) have been found on the Dingle peninsula, barony of Corkaguiney (Corcu Duibne), which got its name from that tribe or sept (McManus 1991, 111).

References

  • Bennett, Uí Shíthigh, Holden, and Ó Bric 1995, 7-8
  • Cuppage 1986, 254
  • Macalister 1945, 167-168
  • McManus 1991, 95, 97, 102, 105, 109, 126, 176 (n.40)
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