What is recorded here

Six ogham stones, including one pale red sandstone pillar marked with the names MAQI-RITTE MAQI COLABOT MAQI MOCO QERAI, lay hidden inside an underground passage beneath a rath in Rockfield Middle. Men later pulled four from that dark chamber to build a cottage in Laharan, breaking the quiet seal of the place. Three traveled to Adare Manor, but the fourth vanished from human sight, returning the names to shadow and silence.

Six ogham stones, reused as roof lintels, were found in a Man-made underground passage (KE057-023001-) in a rath (KE057-023----) in this townland (Barry 1891, 516). Macalister (1945, 239) noted that four of the stones were taken from the Man-made underground passage and used in the building of a cottage in the village of Laharan. Subsequently three of the four stones were removed to Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare (ibid.) where they still are (see LI021-034003-, LI021-034004-, LI021-034005-). The fourth was left behind, and 'is now lost to sight' (ibid., 240). This stone, now at Adare Manor (LI021-034003-), was described by Brash (1879, 222) as an irregular pillar of pale red sandstone 'standing 4ft. 11in. [1.25m]) above ground, 9in. square [0.23m]) at bottom, and 8in [0.2m] by 4in [0.1m]) at top' and 'having two angles on the same face inscribed'. Macalister (1945, 240, no. 243) also described this stone and read its inscription as MAQI-RITTE MAQI COLABOT MAQI MOCO QERAI. Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 3 February 2017

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