Darrynane Beg : Ogham Stone
Visit Notes
Monday, 10th August 2009
This stone is over 2m tall, which is rather impressive. It doesn't show much sign of being worked, apart from the faint ogham inscription down the southwest edge. The stone now stands in a little clearing at the side of the road to Derrynane House from Casherdanial and is signposted. Although the stone is now erect it was, until the 1940s, 'partly buried in Derrynane strand' ( information from Iveragh Peninsula Inventory).
The inscription, which is now only visible down one edge, used to run along two edges and is unreadable apart from a few Ls, an I, a Q and a G.
In 1945 Macalister read the inscription as;
ANM LLATIGNI MAQ M[I]N[E]RC M[UCOI] Q[...]CI
The letters enclosed in [] were dubious even then.
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