Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Mountrivers, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountrivers
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.95765, -8.81222
- SMR number
- CO061-079004-
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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
Apparently found in association with another ogham stone (CO061-079003-) when a flour mill was demolished c. 1840 on the site of a possible ringfort (CO061-079001-). The stone was broken before purchase by the Royal Cork Institution (Macalister 1945, 120); now in the British Museum (Macalister 1906a, 167). The stone (4ft 81/2in; 10in x 6in) is inscribed on two sides but the linking portion is broken off. Macalister (1945, 120, no. 123) gave the inscription as MAQI-BRI..... CELI ALACA... The 1842 OS Name Books mention a third ogham stone in this context but Hartnett (1939, 75) thinks the third stone is actually the lost fragment of this stone. (Power et al. 1997, no. 7983)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 5 March 2016
References
Hartnett, P.J. 1939 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of East Muskerry. Unpublished MA thesis. University College, Cork.
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.
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.