What is recorded here

Gortshanavogh holds a missing stone. Captain Meredith lifted an inscribed marker from a nearly forgotten Danish fort in the 1840s and buried it inside Dicksgrove House. The words that resisted time on the hill were erased again when they became wall material.

In the 1840s a Captain Meredith took a stone with 'engraved letters or inscription' from a 'nearly defaced Danish Fort' in the townland of Gortshanavogh and put it 'in the building of Dicksgrove House' in Dicksgrove townland to the NE (OSNB, Killeentierna, no. 1, 11). The 'nearly defaced Danish Fort' may have been the rath (KE048-065----) but the stone has not been precisely located. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Likely dating to the early medieval period, the inscription may have had a commemorative or territorial function, though its exact meaning is unknown. The stone's reuse in a 19th-century building obscures its original context and any associated folklore.

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