Provenance
Discovery: This stone was the seventh lintel and is one of six ogham stones (also I-COR-062, I-COR-063, I-COR-064, I-COR-065, 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. 6)
Last recorded location(s): Now on permanent display in the Stone Corridor (‘Rúin na gCloch / Stories in Stone’ exhibition), University College Cork, where it was examined for the OG(H)AM project in May 2024.
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO072-078007-
Object type: Pillar
Material: Sandstone
Dimensions: H 1.90 × W 0.43 × D 0.25 m
Condition: Reused as a lintel in a souterrain, a section of the inscription measuring 0.45m (1ft. 6in.) in length ‘which would hold about 24 scores’ is damaged on the second angle of the stone (Macalister 1945, 114). All of the ogham stones in the UCC collection underwent conservation in 2006. The stones are currently in display cases and held in position by brackets.
Inscription
Text field: The inscription is on the flanking angles of one of the narrow edges of the stone and reads up-down (Macalister 1945, 114). The inscription begins 1.17m from the bottom of the first angle of the stone and there are traces of strokes on the right hand angle.
Letters: This inscription appears to be chisel cut.
Edition
Ogham text: ᚁᚏᚐᚅᚔ ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ ᚋᚒᚉᚉ[ᚑᚔ ---
Transcription: BRANI MAQQI MUCC[OI ---]
Critical apparatus:
- Macalister (1945, 115) read ‘the lower distal ends of a reversed R, followed by the tips of an L’ (R[A]L) around the middle of the opposite angle. While there are traces of what may have been ogham strokes here, they are no longer legible. Macalister adds that ‘all of the lost consonants of the second name must have been of the H-group’.
Translation
of Bran son of [the descendant of …]
References
- Macalister 1945, 114-115, no. 116
- McManus 2004, 16, no. 6
- Power and et al. 1994, no. 7973