Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Mountrivers, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountrivers
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 51.95765, -8.81222
- SMR number
- CO061-079003-
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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
One of two ogham stones (see also CO061-079004-) found when a flourmill was demolished c. 1840 on the site of a possible ringfort (CO061-079001-). This is the original location of the ogham stone (H 2.4m x 0.8m x 0.15m) (present location CO061-089001-). It was used as a foot-bridge over the Delehinagh river (Hartnett 1939, 74) until 1851, when it was erected nearby beside St. Olan's holy well (CO061-089002-), where it remains today (Macalister 1945, 120, no. 122). Inscription worn and damaged but read by Macalister (ibid.) as MADORA MAQI DEGO. (Power et al. 1997, no. 7962)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 5 March 2016
References
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.
Hartnett, P.J. 1939 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of East Muskerry. Unpublished MA thesis. University College, Cork.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.