Provenance
Discovery: One of six ogham stones (also I-COR-063, I-COR-064, I-COR-065, I-COR-066, I-COR-067) used in the construction of a souterrain and was discovered in 1911 (CO072-078002-). Two years later it was dismantled and moved to University College Cork. This stone formed the innermost lintel.
Findspot: Knockshanawee (Cnoc Seanmhaí), Co. Cork, Ireland (ITM Coordinates: 545175, 569241)
Current repository: Ireland University College Cork (inv. no. 27)
Last recorded location(s): This ogham stone is now on permanent display in the Stone Corridor (‘Rúin na gCloch / Stories in Stone’ exhibition), University College Cork (see CO074-138----).
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO072-078003-
Object type: Pillar
Material: Siltstone
Dimensions: H 1.95 × W 0.5 × D 0.2 m
Condition: Reused as an innermost lintel in a souterrain, the inscription is ‘badly scaled, but quite decipherable’ (Macalister 1945, 112).
Inscription
Text field: The words of the inscription are spaced ‘which is exceptional: there is a gap of 10.15cm (4in.) after the first word, and of 6.35cm (2.5in.) after the second’ (Macalister 1945, 113).
Letters: The inscription is cut in very fine scores.
Edition
Ogham text: [ᚋ]ᚔ[ᚉ]ᚐᚅᚐᚃᚃᚔ ᚋᚐᚊ ᚂ[ᚒ]ᚌ[ᚒ]ᚅ[ᚔ]
Transcription: [M]I[C]ANAVVI MAQ L[U]G[U]N[I]
Critical apparatus:
- Macalister (1945, 113) noted that the ‘C is broken, the U’s are very faint’ and the final I is ‘quite gone’.
Commentary
McManus (2004, 22-23) adds that if Macalister’s reading LUGUNI is correct, the man recorded here may be a brother of the man recorded on the adjacent stone (I-COR-063) in the souterrain (Archaeological Survey of Ireland, Field Report).
References
- Macalister 1945, 112-113, no. 112
- McManus 2004, 22-23, no. 27
- Power and et al. 1994, no. 7969