Ogham stone

The National Monuments Service's description

This stone (1.88m; 0.35m x 0.26m) is one of two ogham stones (see also CO061-022003-) discovered in a souterrain (CO061-022001-) where it formed one of the 'upright stones' (Quarry 1896, 382). Two other ogham stones (CO061-022002-, CO061-022005-) were also discovered at this site. This stone was purchased by the Royal Irish Academy and is now part of the collection of the National Museum of Ireland (see DU018-368----). According to Macalister (1945, 119, no. 120), the 'inscription [is] perfectly legible, though the surface of the stone is rather rough'. He gave the inscription as BROINIENAS KOI NETA TTRENALUGOS; McManus (1991, 66) had difficulty reading the final U, O and S. (Power et al. 1997, no. 7980)

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=120

Compiled by: Nora White

Date of upload: 3 March 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.

Quarry, J. 1896 Prehistoric remains still remaining in the parish of Donoughmore. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 2, 381-5.

McManus, D. 1991 A guide to ogam. Maynooth: Monographs 4. Maynooth. An Sagart.