Provenance
Discovery: Discovered by 1839 and noted by Windele. It was part of a complex series of monuments, including another ogham stone (I-COR-005), which is the sole survivor above ground. Macalister (1945, 62-63) supplies an inventory from one of Windele’s notebooks of what was to be seen here in his time.
Findspot: Ballynabortagh (Baile na bPórtach), Co. Cork, Ireland (ITM Coordinates: 570245, 583170 (approximate only))
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO052-053----
Object type: Pillar
Material: Stone type unknown
Condition: Destroyed in the mid-nineteenth century, only a drawing of the stone and inscription remain.
Inscription
Text field: According to Hitchcock’s drawing, the inscription ran up on the sinister angle of one of the broad faces of the stone (Macalister 1945, 64).
Letters: The execution technique is unknown.
Edition
Ogham text: ᚋᚐᚔᚂᚐᚌᚅ[ᚔ]
Transcription: MAILAGN[I]
Translation
of Máelán
Commentary
The name Máelán is known elsewhere in the ogham corpus (e.g. I-KER-027 and I-LIM-002), as well as in later epigraphic and manuscript sources, and consists of the word máel ‘bald, cropped’ with the diminutive suffix -án (earlier/ogham -AGNI).
References
- Macalister 1945, 64, no. 60
- Power and et al. 1994, 62, no. 4231