Provenance
Discovery: Discovered in 1906 when the landowner ‘was lowering a headland’ (Buckley 1907,116), c. 40m N of, and in next field to, existing ogham stone (I-COR-003). The immediate area around both stones was excavated in 1985 ‘to facilitate the installation of cattle grids’ with no significant finds. However ‘the curving east and south boundaries of the field here are possibly of an ancient elongated oval enclosure’(Manning 2000, 107, 112).
Findspot: Greenhill (Plácas), Co. Cork, Ireland (ITM Coordinates: 558398, 591970)
Last recorded location(s): In situ (againt the field fence) at Greenhill where it was visited and 3D recorded for the Ogham in 3D project in August 2013.
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: CO042-049001-
Object type: Pillar
Material: Stone type unknown
Dimensions: H 1.54 × W 0.46 × D 0.36 m
Condition: The inscription is clear but possibly incomplete, as the top of the stone appears damaged.
Inscription
Text field: The inscription is running up the top half of one angle.
Letters: The ogham strokes appear to have been v-cut.
Date: First half, or the early second half, of the fifth century (linguistic)
Edition
Ogham text: ᚉᚐᚈᚈᚒᚁᚒᚈᚈᚐᚄ ᚋ̣[ᚐᚊᚔ(?)]
Transcription: CATTUBUTTAS Ṃ[AQI(?)]
Critical apparatus:
- Macalister (1945, 62) thought he could see traces at the top of MAQI (cut off mid Q) but this is very uncertain.
Translation
of Cathub [son of]
Commentary
This personal name contains one of the most commonly occurring elements found in ogham inscriptions: CATU- (OI cath ‘battle’). The early Old Irish form of the name is Cathub, gen. Cathboth, later Cathbad (McManus 1991, 102).
This is one of the inscriptions listed by McManus (1991, 93-94, 97) to be among the earliest in the corpus showing no trace of vowel affection.
References
- Buckley 1907, 116-118
- Macalister 1945, 62
- Manning 2000, 107–112
- McManus 1991, 89-117
- Power, Byrne, Egan, Lane, and Sleeman 1997, no. 7964