Ogham stone (present location)

The National Monuments Service's description

This is the present location of an ogham stone discovered in 1846 built into a souterrain (CO085-067002-), in the SW quadrant of a ringfort (CO085-067001-), with five other ogham stones (CO085-067003-, CO085-067005-; CO085-067006-; CO085-067007-; CO085-067008-). This stone (CO085-067004-) is part of the National Museum of Ireland collection and is currently on display in the museum in Ballyferriter. The inscription is on three angles of the stone (0.9m; 0.4m x 0.2m), given by Macalister (1945, 94-6, no. 98) as CORBAGNI K[OI] M[A]Q[I] MOCCOI COROTANI, and by McManus (1991, 66) as CORBAGNI K.. ...COI cOROtANI. (Power et al. 1997, no. 7949)

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=98

Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 26 February 2017

References

Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.

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

Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S. and Sleeman, M. 1997 Archaeological inventory of county Cork, vol. 3: Mid Cork. Dublin. Stationery Office.