Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Rooves More, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rooves More
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.88330, -8.78863
- SMR number
- CO072-070005-
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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 three ogham stones (also CO072-070003-, CO072-070004-) discovered in a souterrain (CO072-070002-) in 1865, removed by A. Lane-Fox and now in the British Museum (Macalister 1906a, 172-6). Macalister (1945, 123-4, no. 126) described the inscription as cut in an unusual way: 'it begins in the middle of the sinister angle, and runs down to the bottom; then crosses to the bottom of the dexter angle and runs up and on to the top'. Macalister read the inscription on this stone (2.1m; 0.6m x 0.2m) as VEDACUNA [MAQI] TOBIRA MUCOI SOGINI. (Power et al. 1997, no. 7986)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 22 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. 1906a Eight newly discovered ogham inscriptions in Co. Cork. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 36, 259-64.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.