Ireland I-COR-068

Caisleán Chúirt an Bharraigh | Barryscourt Castle (I-COR-068)

Inscription

ILDIMECGMIRE

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Stone ID
I-COR-068
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: Grafitti in ogham script was found impressed onto plaster inside the chapel of the fourteenth-century Barryscourt Castle (Macalister 1932, 223).

Findspot: Barryscourt (Cúirt an Bharraigh), Co. Cork, Ireland (ITM Coordinates: 582156, 572523)

Last recorded location(s): In situ

Support

National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO075-018001-

Object type: Castle wall

Material: Plaster

Dimensions: m

Condition: Macalister (1932, 223) described the first line of ogham writing as ‘perfectly clear’ but the second line as ‘obscure and doubtful’.

Inscription

Text field: The inscription consists of two lines of ogham writing which were apparently impressed in plaster while it was still wet (Macalister 1932, 223).

Letters: The execution technique is unknown.

Edition

Ogham text: ᚔᚂᚇᚔᚋᚓᚉᚌᚋᚔᚏᚓ

Transcription: ILDIMECGMIRE

Critical apparatus:

  1. Macalister (1932, 223) read: ILDIMECGMIRE

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

References

  • Macalister 1932, 223
  • Moore and Pollock 2017, 278–279
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