What is recorded here

No Ogham stone at all, perhaps. A small slab near the real monument, marked M G 16 IVNE on one face and rude letters on the other, noticed by Hitchcock and rubbed by Graves before it vanished from the account entirely. Airghleann keeps both stones now: the celebrated one and the forgotten one, which may have been a boundary marker, a joke, a grave or a man's ordinary claim to a place.

In relation to the Ogham stone (KE025-002001-) Macalister (1945, 141) records that Hitchcock 'noticed another stone of small size close by with an inscription which he recently believed to have been recently cut. It seems to read M G 16 IVNE - on the face of the stone, and some "rude letters" on the other side, of which Graves, according to his notebook had a rubbing; he considered that they were "not worth reproducing".' According to Windele (1848, 490) the slab bore the letters M:C 16 June. There is no reason to accept this as an ogham stone and the present whereabouts of this stone are unknown. (Cuppage 1986, 248-50, no. 790 (2)). Compiled by: Fionnbarr Moore Date of upload: 14 January 2013

Likely dating to the early medieval period, the inscription may have been added or altered in more recent times, as suggested by Hitchcock. Its original meaning or purpose remains unclear due to the uncertainty surrounding the inscription's age and authenticity.

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