What is recorded here

Ogham Stone stands upright in Cork pasture, its southeast edge marked with a name that cattle rubbed and hone scores damaged before scholars could agree on its first word. The stone reaches 2.5m into an open southern view, keeping a personal claim alive beside fields where ploughmarks still cut north and south. It is not a grand monument, but a narrow strip of rock where one life was written, forgotten, disputed and finally remembered through patience.

In pasture, with extensive view to S; upright stone (H 2.5m; 0.6m x 0.3m) with inscription cut along SE edge starting 0.45m from ground to near full height of stone; inscription weathered and defaced by cattle rubbing andhone scores. Macalister (1945, 62, no. 57) gave inscription as TRENU MAQIMUCOI QRITTI; due to defacing of lower scores, first word given as TTGENU by Brash (1879, 138); MacNeill (1909, 361) gave first word as TRENO, areading McManus (1991, 179) considered 'possible'. In Sept. 1985 cattlegrid laid around stone by OPW; short excavation of circular strip 1m widewith its inner edge 1m from centre of stone revealed nothing except N-S cultivation furrows and ploughmarks (pers. comm. C. Manning). Second oghamstone (7964) lies c. 40m to N in next field. Burnfort ogham stone (7965) found c. 900m to SE. (Power et al. 1997, no. 7965) This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=57 Updated by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 31 December 2014

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