Provenance
Discovery: Found within a souterrain (SMR no. CO065-03202-) opened by Rev. J Cotter and W. Hackett of Midleton in 1844 inside a ringfort next to Ballynatrasna House (Power 1994, 63, no. 4238). A second ogham stone (I-COR-011) found in the same souterrain is now on permanent display in the Stone Corridor, University College Cork (SMR ID: CO074-151----).
Findspot: Glenawillin (Gleann an Mhuilinn), Co. Cork, Ireland (ITM Coordinates: 587934, 579450)
Last recorded location(s): Re-erected within the townland on the site of another now erased rath. Visited and recorded using photogrammetry for the Ogham in 3D project in 2017.
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO065-033----
Object type: Pillar
Material: Stone type unknown
Dimensions: H 1.93 × W 0.50 × D 0.30 m
Condition: One of two ogham stones reused in a souterrain. The stone is quite rough and weathered, with lichen on the top section. The inscription is in fair condition, but worn.
Inscription
Text field: As Macalister (1945, 68) noted, in its current position, the inscription is on the dexter angle of the SE face and, unusually, reads downwards.
Letters: The inscription is pocked in fairly evenly-spaced strokes. Some of the vowel notches (especially in the first I) appear slightly longer than usual but they are still shorter than the consonant strokes. As noted by Macalister (1945, 69), the N depends, ‘not on the edge of the stone but on a crack which runs from the edge into the B-surface’.
Edition
Ogham text: ᚂᚑᚇᚔᚋ̣ᚐ̣ᚅᚔ
Transcription: LODIṂẠNI
Critical apparatus:
- Read by Macalister (1945, 68-69) as: LODIMONI 2. Read by O’Kelly (1945, 60) as: LADIMANI
References
- Macalister 1945, 68-69, no. 64
- O’Kelly 1945, 152-153
- Power and et al. 1994, 63, no. 4238