Provenance
Discovery: This stone was discovered in 1826 ‘in the entrenchment of an old burial-ground on this townland’ and later presented to the Royal Cork Institution (Macalister 1945, 107). Brash (1869, 254) gave the find spot as ‘in a killeen at Leades, on the townland of Deelish, and parish of Aghabulloge’, but then added ‘the actual place where the stone was found is known as Killberehert’. There is no known burial ground in Deelish (Leades is name of house at S end of Deelish) but the burial ground of ‘Killberehert’ (CO060-122----) is 1 mile to the W of Deelish in the townland of Kilberrihert. The exact findspot is therefore not certain.
Findspot: Deelish (Duílis), Co. Cork, Ireland (Findspot uncertain)
Current repository: England British Museum (inv. no. 18840609.1)
Last recorded location(s): Now in the British Museum. It was examined and 3d recorded for the OG(H)AM project in June 2025.
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO060-172----
Object type: Pillar
Material: Stone type unknown
Dimensions: H 0.98 × W 0.22 × D 0.33 m
Condition: The bottom of the stone was broken when removed to Cork and the beginning of both lines of the inscription are missing as a result of the damage.
Inscription
Text field: The inscription reads upwards on two angles of the stone, and ‘the upper ends of the two lines of writing overlap awkwardly on the top of the stone’ (Macalister 1945, 108).
Letters: The inscription is pocked in quite large and well-spaced strokes and there is extra space left between the end of the first name and the following MAQI. The vowel strokes are wedge-shaped notches.
Edition
Ogham text: [ᚉᚑᚂᚐᚁ(?)]ᚑᚈ vac.
Transcription: [COLAB(?)]OT vac. MAQI MAQIRITE [MAQI(?) MU]COI CORIBIRỊ
Translation
of Cóelub/Cóelboth son of Mac Rithe? son of the sept/litter of Coirpre?
References
- Brash 1868, 254
- Macalister 1945, 107-108
- Power, Byrne, Egan, Lane, and Sleeman 1997, no. 7961