Ogham stone (present location)

The National Monuments Service's description

Six ogham stones, reused as roof lintels, were found in a souterrain (KE057-023001-) in a rath (KE057-023----) in the townland of Rockfield Middle, Co. Kerry (Barry 1891, 516). Macalister (1945, 239) noted that four of the stones were taken from the souterrain and used in the building of a cottage in the village of Laharan. Subsequently three of the four stones were removed to Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare (ibid.) where they still are. The fourth was left behind, and 'is now lost to sight'. (ibid., 240).
No. I (see KE057-023002-): This stone was described by Brash (1879, 222) as an irregular pillar of pale red sandstone 'standing 4ft. 11in. [1.25m] above ground, 9in. square [0.23m] at bottom, and 8in [0.2m] by 4in [0.1m] at top' and 'having two angles on the same face inscribed'. Macalister (1945, 240, no. 243) also described this stone and read its inscription as
MAQI-RITTE MAQI COLABOT MAQI MOCO QERAI.

Compiled by: Nora White

Date of upload: 19 September 2016

References

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

Barry, E. 1890-91 On fifteen ogham inscriptions recently discovered at Ballyknock, in the Barony of Kinatalloon, County of Cork. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 21, 514-35.

Brash, R.R. 1879 The ogam inscribed monuments of the gaedhil in the British Islands. London. George Bell and Sons.

Dunraven, the Countess of 1865 Memorials of Adare manor. With historical notices of Adare, by the earl of Dunraven E.R.W. WyndhamQuin.