What is recorded here

Seven ogham stones and buried bones emerged from a late 18th-century storm at Cillvickillane, but Lord Ventry removed six in the mid-19th century. Number three now stands 1.16m high at Coláiste Íde, bearing faint scores that scholars still argue whether they spell OD or GR before NAVICAS. The final word holds only one letter on the opposite angle, leaving Macalister's supplied name DOVVINIAS as a conjecture rather than fact.

This is the present location at Coláiste Íde of an ogham stone from Ballinrannig townland (KE042-057008-), site name Cillvickillane/Cill Mhic Uíleáin: A storm at the end of the 18th century exposed 7 ogham stones, a possible fragment of an 8th ogham stone, a cross-inscribed stone, a number of graves and quantities of bone, and the ruins of several houses (Windele 1838, 145). Windele's sketch of the site shows the ogham stones set out in a rough semi-circle on top of the mound with a slab-lined grave positioned nearby. Lord Ventry removed 6 of the ogham stones from the site in the mid-19th century; nos. 1 to 4 now line the driveway to Burnham House/Colaiste Íde (KE053-012004-, KE053-012005-, KE053-012006-, KE053-012007-), between Dingle and Ventry; nos. 5 and 6 are preserved in the grounds of Chute Hall (KE027-132----, KE027-241----) near Tralee and no. 7 remains at the original site (KE042-057003-). This stone stands 1.16m high and is c. 0.34m wide and 0.14m thick. The reading of the full inscription is uncertain and only the following letters survive: ( )NAVICAS MAQI MUCO(I) ( )S. The scores preceding the N are extremely faint; O'Kelly (annotation to personal copy of Macalister's Corpus) and Windele (1848, 448) interpreted these as OD, whereas Macalister (1945, 146-7, no. 150) read G followed by R instead of N. The final word, occupying the diametrically opposed angle of the stone, is represented by only a single letter. Macalister supplied the name DOVVINIAS here but no earlier accounts allude to this and it may have been a conjectural restoration. (Cuppage 1986, no. 792 (No. 3)) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 30 November 2016

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