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Ogham stone

Knockrour, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ogham stone, Knockrour, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Knockrour
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.97017, -8.84617
SMR number
CO060-188----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Discovered in a burial ground (CO060-040002-) within an enclosure (CO060-040001-) by the tenant farmer and presented by him to the antiquarian John Windele, who visited site in 1851 (Brash 1879, 133). The stone is now in the possession of the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Oxford (Macalister 1906a, 169-72). Brash (ibid.) gave the inscription as MUDDOSSA M (A) QQA AT. Macalister (1945, 112, no. 111), reading the inscription in the opposite direction, came up with FAANN MACCOLLUM and concluded that 'the inscription is a forgery'. Two further possible ogham stones (CO060-185----, CO060-187----) are also associated with the site (Power et al. 1997, no. 7994)

Compiled by: Nora White

Date of upload: 29 February 2016

References

Brash, R.R. 1879 The ogam inscribed monuments of the gaedhil in the British Islands. London. George Bell and Sons.

Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S. and Sleeman, M. 1997 Archaeological inventory of county Cork, vol. 3: Mid Cork. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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