What is recorded here

Mountrivers is not a public display but a broken stone now held in the British Museum. It came from a flour mill demolished around 1840 on a possible ringfort site, already snapped when the Royal Cork Institution bought it. Its two surviving faces still carry ogham marks, but the middle that linked them is gone. What is left is a name interrupted, a sentence lost at the exact place where meaning should have continued.

Apparently found in association with another ogham stone (CO061-079003-) when a flour mill was demolished c. 1840 on the site of a possible ringfort (CO061-079001-). The stone was broken before purchase by the Royal Cork Institution (Macalister 1945, 120); now in the British Museum (Macalister 1906a, 167). The stone (4ft 81/2in; 10in x 6in) is inscribed on two sides but the linking portion is broken off. Macalister (1945, 120, no. 123) gave the inscription as MAQI-BRI..... CELI ALACA... The 1842 OS Name Books mention a third ogham stone in this context but Hartnett (1939, 75) thinks the third stone is actually the lost fragment of this stone. (Power et al. 1997, no. 7983) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 5 March 2016

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