What is recorded here

Nine inches of unknown stone sit on a hilltop where Rathcanning fort still faces the sky. Macalister pulled the fragment from a wall and saw the shadow of M, while other marks withheld their meaning. The small stone has survived being buried, rebuilt and forgotten, keeping a name or warning that no one living remembers.

This is the present location for the ogham fragment (CO066-053----) found on the crown of a hill with good views in all directions, inside Rathcanning fort (COO66-01001-) in Glenaphuca townland. A lump of stone (9in; 4in x 4in), read by Macalister (1945, 82, no. 80) as bearing the end of an M and other marks 'not so certainly intended as letters'. This fragment was rescued by him 'from the wall of the ....fort'. A second ogham stone (CO066-009----) was implied by Macalister (1945, 82, no. 79) to have come from the Man-made underground passage (CO066-01002-) in this fort. However, the earliest account of this stone states that it came from another Man-made underground passage S of Rathcanning, closer to where it was found re-used in a farmyard. (Power et al. 1994, no. 4236) 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: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=80 Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 15 May 2016

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