| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:82 |
| Site: | BAKNK |
| Discovery: | non-arch dig, 1891 Barry, E. |
| History: | Macalister/1907, 108: `...first brought to knowledge through the exertions of the late Father Barry, who, after describing them, had them buried again where they were found. They were afterwards re-exhumed, however, by Mrs Donovan's sons'. Macalister/1945, 85: `Afterwards under the influence of Rev. Canon Power, twelve of the stones were removed to University College, Cork...This stone was not taken to Cork: being desirous of checking these observations and of having a drawing I revisited the farm, but found it deserted, the lands let for grazing, the house empty and derelict, and no trace or tradition of the stones discoverable anywhere'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.13 x 0.0 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | Lost (present 1891, missing 1945) |
| Location: | Revisiting the sight in preparation for _CIIC_ Macalister was unable to find either the stones or any memory of them. Macalister/1907, 108, `...first brought to knowledge through the exertions of the late Father Barry, who, after describing them, had them buried again where they were found. They were afterwards re-exhumed, however, by Mrs Donovan's sons'. Macalister/1945, 85:`This stone was not taken to Cork: being desirous of checking these observations and of having a drawing I revisited the farm, but found it deserted, the lands let for grazing, the house empty and derelict, and no trace or tradition of the stones discoverable anywhere'.
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| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | complete , inc |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1907): | MAILAGUROMAQ[I][--]VILEB[--
Expansion: MAILAGURO MAQ[I][--]VILEB[-- Macalister/1907 107--109 reading only Macalister/1945 85 reading only Ziegler/1994 258 reading only |
| McManus, D. (1991): | MAILAGUROMAQ[I][--]LIL[-- Expansion: MAILAGUROMA[I][--]LIL[-- McManus/1991 67 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | - (McManus/1991) McManus/1991, 110, argues that the element `MAILE- (<*mailyas, > OI Máel-, gen. Maíle-) 'cropped') … is extremely popular later in the names of clerics and it may be significant that the Ogam examples are late: … 82 MAILAGURO'. |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 88, 116, 180. |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 85:`Only the first two notches remaining of 2I. Before my V there was room for the remaining three, and perhaps three other scores, all broken away by the fracture. In the following edge of this gap, where Barry reads L, I found the side of an additional score, turning this letter into a V; and in place of his ]LA I found LEB, followed by at least three vowel-notches'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |