What is recorded here

Cloghabrody held an ogham stone in a monk's field beside a Nore tributary before men moved it to Thomastown and later Jerpoint Abbey. The deep scores still trace a sixth-century name across the stone's edges, linking the western bank to the eastern church and well through water rather than distance. The field gave up its marker only after centuries of rain, not before human hands forgot what the marks meant.

This record relates to the original location of the ogham stone found in 1969 in this townland: the precise location is not known. It was found in a field called the ‘monk's field’ on the W bank of a stream, a tributary of the River Nore, that separates the townlands of Cloghabrody and Columbkille. The church (KK028-043001-) and holy well (KK028-043003-) of Columbkille are on the E side of the stream and it may be that there is a connection between this church site and the ogham stone (pers. comm. Fionnbarr Moore). The stone stood for many years beside the N pier of the arch at the entrance to the largely-demolished chancel of the parish church at Thomastown (former record number KK028-040001-): it was moved to Jerpoint Abbey in 2014 where it has been put on display in the Prior's Room at Jerpoint Abbey (see KK028-062011-). McManus (1997, 74-5) describes the stone as follows: ‘It measures approx. 146cm high, 31 cm wide and 20 cm thick. The scores are very deeply cut and the inscription is in extremely good condition. It reads up the left-hand arris across the top and down the right in boustrophedon fashion and continues on the left-hand side rear arris. The reading is (/ indicates the turn of the stone) VEDDELLEMETTO MU/CI/ LOGIDDEAS / AVVI MUNICCONA. . . . which, linguistically, appears to belong to the first half of the sixth century. . . .' Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 6 May 2016

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