What is recorded here

Ogham stones in Knockrour, County Cork, carry names that men have argued across centuries. A tenant farmer pulled one from a burial ground and gave it to John Windele in 1851, trusting that the cuts marked a real person rather than a prank. Windele carried it to Oxford, where it still rests, while scholars continue to dispute whether its letters record life or deceit. The stone does not answer; it waits for the living to project their certainty onto its smooth surface.

Discovered in a burial ground (CO060-040002-) within an enclosure (CO060-040001-) by the tenant farmer and presented by him to the antiquarian John Windele, who visited site in 1851 (Brash 1879, 133). The stone is now in the possession of the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Oxford (Macalister 1906a, 169-72). Brash (ibid.) gave the inscription as MUDDOSSA M (A) QQA AT. Macalister (1945, 112, no. 111), reading the inscription in the opposite direction, came up with FAANN MACCOLLUM and concluded that 'the inscription is a forgery'. Two further possible ogham stones (CO060-185----, CO060-187----) are also associated with the site (Power et al. 1997, no. 7994) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 29 February 2016

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