Provenance
Discovery: Apparently found in association with another ogham stone (I-COR-073) when a flour mill was demolished c. 1840 on the site of a possible ringfort (CO061-079001-). The stone was broken before purchase by the Royal Cork Institution (Macalister 1945, 120).
Findspot: Mountrivers (Cnoc idir Dhá Abhainn), Co. Cork, Ireland (ITM Coordinates: 544176, 578708)
Current repository: England British Museum (inv. no. 19050314.1)
Last recorded location(s): Now in the British Museum. It was examined and 3d recorded for the OG(H)AM project in December 2023.
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO061-079004-
Object type: Pillar
Material: Stone type unknown
Dimensions: H 1.44 × W 0.25 × D 0.15 m
Condition: The upper portion of the stone is broken off. The 1842 OS Name Books mention a third ogham stone in this context but Hartnett (1939, 75) thinks the third stone is actually the lost fragment of this stone. (Power et al. 1997, no. 7983).
Inscription
Text field: Originally, the inscription extended to the top of the stone, which has since been lost. The surviving portions of the inscription are found on the two edges of the stone.
Letters: According to Macalister (1945, 120), ‘the inscription is cut in minute scores’.
Edition
Ogham text: ᚋᚐᚊᚔ ᚁᚏᚔ[---
Transcription: MAQI-BRI[---]CELI ALACA[---]
References
- Hartnett 1939, 75
- Macalister 1945, 120-121
- Power, Byrne, Egan, Lane, and Sleeman 1997, no. 7983