Provenance
Discovery: Discovered before 1945, the stone was removed from the NW quadrant of a ringfort called Lisagallaun (CO040-053001-) and broken into a number of pieces; one part was used as a workbench in a nearby farmyard, a second was erected as a gatepost (Macalister 1945, 128-129).
Findspot: Crinnaloo (Crionna Lua), Co. Cork, Ireland (ITM Coordinates: 535846, 591206)
Last recorded location(s): The gatepost is now broken up and the pieces scattered (Power et al. 1997, no. 6914).
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO040-053002-
Object type: Pillar
Material: Whinstone
Dimensions: slab: H 1.78 × W 0.91 × D 0.25 m gatepost: H 1.83 × W 0.76 × D 0.25 m
Condition: Described by Macalister (1945, 129) as ‘a very tall stone’ that ‘had been broken into three pieces, two of which were preserved in the immediate vicinity of the farm buildings—one lying in the farmyard itself, a slab…the other…serving as a gatepost to the haggard’. The inscription is ‘very worn’.
Inscription
Text field: Traces of an inscription are found on the dexter edge of the stone.
Letters: The execution technique of the inscription is unknown.
Edition
Ogham text: ᚄᚓᚉᚔᚇᚐᚏᚔ
Transcription: SECIDARI
References
- Macalister 1945, 128-129
- Power, Byrne, Egan, Lane, and Sleeman 1997, no. 6914