What is recorded here

Ardcanaght I stands in a modern enclosure beside a rock-art stone, having lost its bottom and half its inscribed edge. The surviving fragment displays only V MAQI, meaning son of, while the final scores sink below ground. Men of the Tralee field club pulled these stones from a nearby burial ground in the 1940s, dragging a broken name into the light just enough to show it belonged to someone's father.

One of two ogham stones (see KE047-026003- for details of second stone) discovered by the Tralee field club in the 1940s in a nearby burial ground (KE047-037----, ‘Killeen Old Burial Ground’). Both are now located in a modern enclosure beside a standing stone (KE047-026---- with rock art (KE047-026002-). This ogham stone (0.42m (above ground) x 0.43m x 0.15m) is badly damaged with the bottom lost 'as well as about half of the inscribed edge of the surviving portion' (Macalister 1945, 241, no. 246a). All that survives of the inscription is: ...]V MAQI[... [Son of]. Only two scores of the final I remain and the V was below ground level on the last visit. Listed by Dr. White as Ardcanaght I. Cross-referenced with KE047-037001-. 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/version2013/stone.php?lang=en&site=Ardcanaght&stoneinfo=description&stone=246a._Ardcanaght_I Compiled by: Dr. Nora White Date of upload: 25 January 2017

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