What is recorded here

Six ogham stones emerged from a hidden passage beneath a Kerry rath, their markings still visible when men lifted them to bridge cottage roofs in Laharan. Three travelled to Adare, but the fourth vanished from human sight, perhaps swallowed back into the earth or buried under forgotten rubble. The sixth never entered any list at all, leaving a hole in the story where a stone should be.

Six ogham stones, reused as roof lintels, were found in a Man-made underground passage (KE057-023001-) in a rath (KE057-023----) in this townland (Barry 1891, 516). Macalister (1945, 239) noted that four of the stones were taken from the Man-made underground passage and used in the building of a cottage in the village of Laharan. Subsequently three of the four stones were removed to Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare (ibid.) where they still are (see LI021-034003-, LI021-034004-, LI021-034005-). The fourth was left behind, and 'is now lost to sight'. (ibid., 240). Macalister (1945, 241) noted that the Rev. E. Barry stated that six ogham stones were found in the Man-made underground passage and while he gave details of five of them he mentioned nothing about the sixth. Its present location is not known. Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 3 February 2017

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