What is recorded here

Inscribed stone in Inishmurray is an inscribed stone in Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland. A quarter of the inscribed face is missing from this 0.825 m high, 0.25 m wide and 0.1 m thick slab. The surviving letters read AILAD OCUS AR MAELBRIG ORORC OCUS AR EILEISE. The fragment names Maelbrig, Ororc and Eileise beside the ending ailad.

This broken slab was found in the 19th-century during grave-digging in the graveyard (SL001-002007-). It is now located in Templenaman church (SL001-002001-). About one quarter of the inscribed face of this slab (H: 0.825 m, W: 0.25 m, Th: 0.1 m) has been broken off. The surviving incription reads: AILAD OCUS AR MAELBRIG ORORC OCUS AR EILEISE. Translation: ‘name + ending -ailad and for maelbrig[te] …//…ororc and for eileise'. This is a National Monument (no. 117) in state ownership. The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in: Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press. Date of upload: 16 January 2018

Dated to the early Christian period (5th–9th century AD), the inscription is likely a memorial or ogham gravestone, used to mark a burial or commemorate an individual. Such stones are commonly associated with early Irish Christian sites and may reflect local Gaelic naming traditions.

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