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Monumental Pillar

Ogham stone

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Tenas Maci V, named in weathered ogham on a tall needle of stone, still stands in a Cork graveyard. The pillar rises beside exposed packing stones, marking a burial place from an early Christian world. A faint cross with expanded terminals appears on the west face, while the name itself has become a wound of time, partly erased but still present.
A tall needle-like pillar (H 3.3m; 0.36m x 0.3m) in the N half of a graveyard (CO122-075003-) in an early ecclesiastical enclosure (CO122-075001-). Packing stones are exposed around the denuded base. There is a faint outline of a small incised cross with expanded terminals on the W face. The weathered ogham inscription is on the NW corner and was read by Macalister (1945, 79, no. 76) as 'ANM TENAS MACI V'. (Power et al. 1992, no. 1041) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 23 April 2016 Image provided by and copyright of Amanda Clarke 2016-2022 https://holywellscorkandkerry.com/

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