What is recorded here

Keel holds an eighteen-decimeter ogham stone that once roofed a hidden chamber inside a large rath. Hitchcock pulled it from that dark underground passage and it later stood before a police barrack, now a farmhouse. Its letters still distinguish Cattuvvirr, son of Rittuvvecas, from the lineage of Allato. The stone has moved from secrecy to visibility, carrying a named man across changing boundaries and forgotten uses.

This ogham stone (1.83m, converted from Macalister 1945) was `found by Hitchcock in the inner chamber of a Man-made underground passage (KE046-022001-, in a large rath KE046-022----) in which it formed one of the roofing stones; afterwards moved to a site in front of the police barrack (now a farmhouse, see KE046-031----) on the townland of Keel' (Macalister 1945, 244, no. 250). Kilgarrylanders church, in ruins (KE046-021----), is close by to the NW. Macalister records the stone as 'Corkaboy' as the original location was previously in that townland. However, the townland boundary has since changed and it is now in the townland of Keel. The inscription was read by Macalister as: CATTUVVIRR MAQI RITUVVECAS MUCOI ALLATO but by O'Kelly (1954, 108) as: CATTUVVIRR MAQI RITTAVVECAS MUCOI ALLATO. Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 23 January 2017 To see a 3D model of this monument, visit; https://skfb.ly/oyoXJ

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