What is recorded here
Macalister read MAQI R and a lost vowel before the rock vanished into scale, proving the boundary between Gleensk and Kilkeehagh once belonged to a named man. The small stone sits off-centre on a cairn beside a penitential station, waiting for someone brave enough to imagine the life behind its chipped letters.
An ogham stone at Laghtfinnan Penitential Station: This cairn... is located close to the top of a spur which extends NW from Drung Hill. It straddles the boundary of Gleensk and Kilkeehagh townlands, which is also a parish boundary. The ogham stone is located on a small platform located off-centre on the top of the cairn. The stone is 1.06m in maximum height and measures .33m x .2m in basal dimensions. The remains of an inscription on the NE angle was read by Macalister (1945, 227, no. 234) as: MAQI R[... . After the R there is `a single vowel notch...and possibly a second, after which everything is scaled away for 8.5'', and one vowel notch follows'. ((O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, no. 389)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 8 February 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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