What is recorded here

Three ogham stones from a buried Kerry passage now sit inside Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare, having first become roof lintels in a Laharan cottage. They left a hidden chamber, crossed a county, and entered a grand house, carrying pale red sandstone and angular marks through every change. The fourth stone vanished from sight, preserving the mystery that attraction often creates when memory outpaces ownership.

Six ogham stones, reused as roof lintels, were found in a Man-made underground passage (KE057-023001-) in a rath (KE057-023----) in the townland of Rockfield Middle, Co. Kerry (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. The fourth was left behind, and 'is now lost to sight'. (ibid., 240). No. I (see KE057-023002-): This stone was described by Brash (1879, 222) as an irregular pillar of pale red sandstone 'standing 4ft. 11in. [1.25m] above ground, 9in. square [0.23m] at bottom, and 8in [0.2m] by 4in [0.1m] at top' and 'having two angles on the same face inscribed'. Macalister (1945, 240, no. 243) also described this stone and read its inscription as MAQI-RITTE MAQI COLABOT MAQI MOCO QERAI. Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 19 September 2016

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