Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Knockrour, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockrour
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.97017, -8.84617
- SMR number
- CO060-187----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Brash (1879, 133) a stone 'bearing a mutilated inscription' was found in 1856 in a burial ground (CO060-040002-) within an enclosure (CO060-040001-) at Knockrour (in fact the site straddles two townlands, the other being Oughtihery). He described the stones as '5 feet in length, and triangular in section, the sides being respectively 13, 12 and 10 inches' (ibid.); he gave the inscription as B..Q..... HAGA......DL; according to Macalister (1945, 111, no. 110) the first two letters may be the remains of MAQI. The stone was lost shortly after its discovery and nothing is now known of its whereabouts. Two further possible ogham stones (CO060-185----, CO060-188----) are also associated with the site (Power et al. 1997, no. 7993)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 29 February 2016
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S. and Sleeman, M. 1997 Archaeological inventory of county Cork, vol. 3: Mid Cork. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Brash, R.R. 1879 The ogam inscribed monuments of the gaedhil in the British Islands. London. George Bell and Sons.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.