What is recorded here

Rockfield Middle once held six ogham stones inside a man-made underground passage beneath a rath, but humans took most of them for building. Three went to Adare, one vanished into a house wall, and the smallest fragment was lost altogether. The stone was about thirty centimetres long and may have carried the nonsense name V?GOLAM. It is gone now, yet it still belongs to the place because people removed it from there.

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-). This, the fourth, was left behind, and 'is now lost to sight'. Described by Macalister (1945, 240-41, no. 245) as a fragment 'about 1ft [0.3m] in length' that was lost but was said to have been inscribed with the unintelligible sequence of letters V?GOLAM'. Macalister also recorded that this stone was built into the gable of the a house of a man named Patrick Quirk (ibid., 241). Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 3 February 2017

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