Provenance
Discovery: Discovered c.1938 by Edward O’Toole on the land of a Mr. William Hopkins, where it had been used to build up a gateway or gap in the fence by the roadside (O’Toole 1938, 304). Suggested by O’Toole (1938, 304) that it may have originally come from the nearby graveyard at Kilmagarvoge (Cill Mogharbhóg), of which no visible surface traces remain (Brindley and Kilfeather 1993, 68). Also described and drawn by Price in 1938 (Notebook 17, Corlett 2002).
Findspot: Tuckamine (Tuca Mín) , Co. Carlow, Ireland (Possible original location)
Current repository: Ireland National Museum of Ireland (inv. no. 1938:9738)
Last recorded location(s): National Mumeum of Ireland (examined and 3D scanned in May 2011 as part of the Ogham in 3D project).
Support
National Monuments Service SMR ID: CW003-023----
Object type: Pulvinar pillar
Material: Granite
Dimensions: H 1.07 × W 0.30 × D 0.25 m
Condition: ‘Originally a rounded pillar of pulvinar shape, but now split longitudinally, so that the horizontal cross-section is roughly semicircular’ (Macalister 1945, 20). Broken at the end with probable loss of vowel strokes.
Inscription
Text field: Along the length of the rounded surface. According to Macalister (1945, 20), ‘there must have been two lines of writing, up-up’.
Letters: The inscription is pocked and the vowel strokes are circular punched marks.
Edition
Transcription: [ - - - - - - - - - - ] MUCOI MUCCỊ[---]
Critical apparatus:
- There are at least two and, possibly three, faint vowel strokes at the broken end, which may represent O, U, E or I.
Translation
[of …] descendant of Mucc[…]
Commentary
Not enough survives of this inscription to say more than that we appear to have a kin-group name, consisting of the formula word MUCOI (‘descendant, litter of’) and presumably the beginning of a personal name MUCC-.
References
- Brindley and Kilfeather 1993, 68
- Corlett, Weaver, and Price 2002,
- Macalister 1945, 20
- O’Toole and Macalister 1938, 304-305