What is recorded here

Two ogham stones belonged to An Eaglais, but only one remains beside the tombs. The surviving stone displays a Maltese cross, an arrow motif and swastikas alongside inverted ogham marks, while its companion left for Dublin during the nineteenth century. What is left still points toward the buried people and the changed world that took one of their markers away.

‘A cross-inscribed ogham stone, now in the NMI [DU018-399----], was removed from the site in the mid-19th century and a 2nd ogham stone (KE054-032004-) remains standing beside one of the tombs. One face of this stone bears a Maltese cross within a circle, beneath which is a spear-or arrow-like motif flanked on either side by a swastika. Two very faint circular marks were noted by Macalister (1945, 137, no. 141) below the stem of the arrow but these are not now evident. The ogham inscription, inverted with respect to the cross, occupies both angles of the same face. Part of the inscription is now missing and the remainder was read by Macalister as: MAQI MAQ(I....O)GGODIKA’. (Cuppage 1986, no. 810) 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: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=141 Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 30 January 2017

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