What is recorded here

Mucoi Luguni, a clan whose name is cut into the stone, still circles the monastery graveyard at Castlekeeran. The ogham marks a man called Covagni, son of Magi, and he may have been Segene of Clara, killed in 784 according to the Annals of Tigernach. The stone stands inverted, its top buried, as if the clan refused to release him or the monastery forgot how to honour him.

An ogham stone (H c. 0.6m) was unearthed in the graveyard (ME016-006007-) of the early monastery of Diseart Chiarain (ME016-006----) in 1898 and it is set up incorrectly with the top below. It is just N of the church remains, and has been read as: COVAGNI MAGI MUCOI LUGUNI (O'Connell 1957, 26; Macalister 1945, vol. 1, 46). However, a more recent interpretation (Heery and Newman Maguire 2012) has identified further letters and provides the reading: T_COVAGNI MAQI MUCOI LUGUNI ITI, and they suggest that the person commemorated is Segéne of Clara whose death is recorded in the Annals of Tigernach in 784. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload; 6 June, 2014 Amended: 21 July 2022

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