Provenance
Discovery: This stone was the third lintel and is one of six ogham stones (also I-COR-062, I-COR-063, I-COR-064, I-COR-066, I-COR-067) used in the construction of a souterrain (CO072-078002-) and was discovered in 1911. Two years later it was dismantled and moved to University College Cork.
Findspot: Knockshanawee (Cnoc Seanmhaí), Co. Cork, Ireland (ITM Coordinates: 545175, 569241)
Current repository: Ireland University College Cork (inv. no. 2)
Last recorded location(s): Now on permanent display in the Stone Corridor (‘Rúin na gCloch / Stories in Stone’ exhibition), University College Cork (See CO074-134----)
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO072-078006-
Object type: Pillar
Material: Sandstone
Dimensions: H 3.1 × W 0.4 × D 0.3 m
Condition: Reused as a lintel in a souterrain, ‘the stone is fragile, it broke in two along the line of an old crack’ (Macalister 1945, 114).
Letters: Macalister (1945, 114) described the scores as ‘carelessly cut’.
Edition
Ogham text: ᚉᚒᚂᚏᚔᚌᚐᚔ ᚋᚐᚊᚔ ᚋᚓᚅᚒᚋᚐᚊ[ᚔ]
Transcription: CULRIGAI MAQI MENUMAQ[I]
References
- Macalister 1945, 114, no. 115
- McManus 2004, 15, no. 2
- Power and et al. 1994, no. 7972