Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Monataggart, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monataggart
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.97669, -8.78778
- SMR number
- CO061-022002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Large stone (2.5m; 0.4m x 0.3m) discovered in 1872 during ploughing of a field, later set up as a gate post (Brash 1879, 160-1); according to farmer, formed lintel in possible long cist grave (7946). Purchased by Royal Irish Academy (Quarry 1896, 382) and now in collection of National Museum of Ireland (see DU018-366----). Macalister (1945, 116-8, no. 118) gave the inscription as VEQREQ MUCOI GLUNLEGGET, but considered that it had 'passed through a series of vicissitudes, all of which have left scars upon its surface' (ibid., 116). (Power 1997, 169, no. 7978)
This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website:
https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=118
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Revised date of upload: 31 December 2014
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.
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