What is recorded here

Clear marks cut through stone in Kerry, naming people long dead and tying memory to earth. The stone moved from Kilbonane Church to Coolmagort, where it stands among eight stones saved from forgetting. Its broken middle still hides part of the story, but the angles and face preserve enough to show that ordinary life was recorded deliberately.

This ogham stone formerly lay in the chancel of Kilbonane Church (KE057-078001-) and was moved to Coolmagort (see KE065-078009-) where it is on display with seven other ogham stones from the nearby Man-made underground passage (Macalister 1945, 235, no. 241). Dimensions: 1.91m x 0.41m x 0.18m (converted from Brash 1879, 234). It has three lines of ogham inscription; one on an edge, another along a line scratched down along the face of the stone with a smaller line half its length beside it. There is a third inscription on the other edge. The inscription is unclear at the repaired break across the middle. According to Macalister (1903, 175; 1945, 235-7), the main inscription on the face, including the smaller line, is independent of the inscription on the angles. Macalister (ibid.), read the inscription on the face as: NIR*** MN[I]DAGNIESSICONIDDALA AMIT BAIDAGNI. Macalister deciphers the inscription on the dexter angle as: B[AID]AGNI MAQI ADDILONA and on the sinister angle as: NAGUNI MUCO BASIDANI (ibid.). 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: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=241 Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 6 February 2017

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