What is recorded here

Mucoi Eracias, son of Dimaq, was buried beneath the chancel of St Mary's Gowran when the church fell in 1827. The stone rose crooked and chipped, bearing a potent cross and edges marked with Ogham script. It stands now inside the later church, waiting for someone who still remembers the old tongue.

Found in the foundations of the chancel of the medieval parish church of St Mary's Gowran (KK020-060006-), when the chancel was demolished in 1827 to make way for a C of I church (Brash 1872-3; 437; Dolan 2000, vol. 3, 112). The ogham stone (max H 1.51m; max. Wth 0.43m; D 0.33) bears a 'large cross potent, crookedly set out [and] cut on the original base of the inscribed face . . . Inscription cut, on two edges (up-up) and though chipped in places, on the whole in quite good condition' (Macalister 1945, 38, no. 32). Macalister recorded the inscription as: MAQI-ERAC[I]AS [MA]QI DIMAQ[A] MUC[OI-- and McManus (1997, 66) as: [MAQI]-ERAC[IAS] [MAQI] D[I]M[A]Q[A] MUC[O--. It is currently on display in the former C of I church. See attached photographs: KK020-060007-_02 Front and dexter side KK020-060007-_03 Scanned image of front and dexter side KK020-060007-_04 Front and sinister side Compiled by: Nora White and Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 14 August 2019

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