What is recorded here

Seven ogham stones formed a narrow underground chamber near Coolmagort until workmen broke through the roof in 1838. They pulled human bones from the dark before officials moved the stones beside a public road and buried the hole. The largest surviving slab still wears edges carved for names now lost to time.

A total of seven ogham stones were incorporated into a Man-made underground passage (KE065-078----), marked ‘Cave’ on the OS maps, discovered in 1838 by workmen building a field boundary across a slight rise in Dunloe Castle demesne... It was roofed by nine slabs, six of which bore ogham inscriptions. One of the larger ogham stones had cracked in antiquity and was supported by a seventh, which stood upright in the Man-made underground passage passage. A number of bones and skulls, some of which were reputedly human, were found in the Man-made underground passage. In 1940 the ogham stones were removed from the site by the OPW, and were erected close to a public roadway nearby. The Man-made underground passage was subsequently filled back and no surface trace remains. (5) This stone (present location KE065-041005-) measures 1.3m high, and up to .23m in both width and thickness. The inscription was carved along both edges and across the top, but the latter was broken off in antiquity. Macalister (1945, 196, no. 202) read it as: NIOTTVRECC MAQI [. .]GNI (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, no. 863) 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=202 Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 19 February 2017

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