Cúil Má Gort | Coolmagort 1 (I-KER-066) — Ogham Stone

Provenance

Discovery: 1838 (reused as outermost lintel of the souterrain)

Findspot: Coolmagort (Cúil Má Gort https://www.logainm.ie/en/23373), Co. Kerry, Ireland (ITM coordinates (souterrain according to OS maps, no surface trace): 487974, 591098)

Last recorded location(s): Erected by the OPW in 1940 beside a public roadway near the site of the souterrain.

Support

National Monuments Service SMR ID: KE065-078003-

Object type: Pillar

Dimensions:

Inscription

Text field: A small, encircled, equal-armed cross occurs on that face of the stone which was uppermost when it served as a lintel in the souterrain (Graves 1886, 605; O’Sullivan et al 1996, no. 863 (1)).

Letters: Pocked in short, broad, evenly-spaced strokes. None of the H-aicme strokes reach the angle. The S at the end of the first word appears to have been omitted initally and subsequently added on the face of the stone beside the O, which is closely followed by the M of MAQI. Use of the X-forfd with consonant value.

Edition

Ogham text: ᚇᚓᚌᚑ`ᚄ´ ᚋᚐᚊᚔ ᚋᚑᚉᚑᚔ ᚈᚑᚔᚉᚐᚕ

Transcription: DEGO`S´ MAQI MOCOI TOICAKI

Translation

of Daig son of the descendant of Toicacas

References

Macalister 1945, 191-193

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