What is recorded here

Half-buried in Tullig More when first seen in 1841, the irregular pillar still stands in Cork City with clear scorings that resist easy reading. Macalister imagined hidden letters completing a blessing for Bishop Maqil, yet McManus later called that interpretation fanciful. The violent treatment of the stone destroyed an older inscription beneath the bishop's words, leaving only a broken surface where two different voices once competed for memory.

This is the present location of an ogham stone found in Tullig More, Co Cork in 1841 (see CO061-182----). Recorded by Power (1932, 22, no. 23) as a pillar (5ft x 1ft 6ins) with well cut, clear scorings but nevertheless difficult to make sense of. He read EGSAMVVA MAQI LASCOG[I]. According to Macalister (1945, 124, no. 127), the stone (5ft 2ins x 1ft 9ins x 1ft 6ins) is of '....extremely irregular shape owing to violent treatment', the only unbroken part being the surface between the two lines of writing. He gave the inscription as MAQILASPOG B TTMACDE and suggested that some letters may have been painted on the surface of the stone between the B and TT (there is room for 7 scores here) to make the word BENEDICATT. He then interpreted the inscription to mean 'May the Son of God bless Bishop "Maqil"'. McManus (2004, 20, no. 20) reads: MAQI LAS?OG, B/M[ ]TTM[ ]Cge and describes Macalister's interpretation as 'rather fanciful'. Macalister (1945, 126, no. 127) also noted that there had 'unquestionably' been an earlier inscription on the stone which had been completely destroyed and that the shape of the block now suggests that the bishop's inscription is on the original base. This inscription was partially buried when the stone was first discovered (ibid). (Power et al. 1997, no. 7990) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 9 March 2016

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