Provenance
Discovery: Windele found the stone lying prostrate in a field and ‘had it set up again, but afterwards moved it to his own house’ (Macalister 1945, 131).
Findspot: Mountmusic (Cnoc Amhráin), Co. Cork, Ireland (Coordinates unknown)
Current repository: Ireland University College Cork (inv. no. 28)
Last recorded location(s): McManus (2004, 10) recorded the stone as missing from UCC but his visit was prior to the conservation of the collection, which was carried out in 2006. McManus didn’t include a 28th stone, which was actually this ogham stone, because it was lying prostrate on the ground with the inscription hidden. Now in University College Cork.
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO082-095----
Object type: Pillar
Material: Sandstone
Dimensions: H 1.6 × W 0.23 × D 0.20 m
Decoration: According to Macalister (1945, 131), the stone had been inverted at some point ‘and a cross pattée deeply cut upon the original butt’. The maltese cross is now near the head of the pillar.
Condition: The inscription is ‘much worn, especially on the H-side’ and the later addition of a cross damaged the first two letters of the inscription: the ‘B-half of the M and the first four scores of the following I’ were destroyed (Macalister 1945, 131).
Inscription
Text field: The inscription ‘occupies almost the whole of the inscribed angle’ of the stone (Macalister 1945, 131).
Letters: The inscription is comprised of minute cuts which is characteristic of the scored execution technique.
Edition
Ogham text: [ᚋᚔ]ᚅᚅᚐᚉᚉᚐᚅᚅᚔ ᚋᚐᚊᚔ ᚐᚔᚂᚂᚒᚐᚈᚈᚐᚅ
Transcription: [MI]NNACCANNI MAQI AILLUATTAN
References
- Macalister 1945, 131, no. 135