Ogham stone (present location) in Mullagh — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Ogham stones are not decorations. They are claims laid across time, marking a body, a family or a god in places other people had already forgotten. The small limestone block from Mullagh belongs to that older argument. It may have stood at Rantavan before travelling to Templekelly, where it was cut, reused and made into a grave marker. Even if the name OSBBAR has faded from memory, the stone is still doing what ogham did: refusing to let one life disappear without a witness.

This is the present location, at St Kilians Heritage Centre, of the Mullagh ogham stone. It is believed (local tradition) to have originated from an early church site at Rantavan (CV044-018001-). It was subsequently removed to the graveyard of 'Templekelly' at Mullagh (see CV040-044003-), and reused as a headstone positioned just W of the ruined church of Mullagh (Ferguson 1875, 303). The stone is limestone and measures 0.64 x 0.27 x 0.11m (Macalister 1945, 299). Macalister (1945, 300, no. 312) read the inscription as OSBBAR. Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 10 September 2016

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