What is recorded here

Ogham stones are the oldest surviving Irish writing, and this is one of them: a long stone from County Cork, cut with marks that record a name and a kin group. It was pulled from a field in 1872, stood for years as a gate post, and only later went to a museum where people could still read the scars on its surface. A horse dragging a plough broke the silence of centuries, and an ordinary farm gate kept the stone alive until scholars arrived.

Large stone (2.5m; 0.4m x 0.3m) discovered in 1872 during ploughing of a field, later set up as a gate post (Brash 1879, 160-1); according to farmer, formed lintel in possible long cist grave (7946). Purchased by Royal Irish Academy (Quarry 1896, 382) and now in collection of National Museum of Ireland (see DU018-366----). Macalister (1945, 116-8, no. 118) gave the inscription as VEQREQ MUCOI GLUNLEGGET, but considered that it had 'passed through a series of vicissitudes, all of which have left scars upon its surface' (ibid., 116). (Power 1997, 169, no. 7978) This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=118 Updated by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 31 December 2014

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