Ogham 3D - CIIC 275. Drumlohan IV, Co. Waterford

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Drumlohan IV Ogham Stone, County Waterford The information below is taken from the Ogham in 3D website: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/stone.php?lang=en&site=Drumlohan&stone=275._Drumlohan_IV&stoneinfo=description Description Site A souterrain was discovered when removing the outer bank at the northwest of an early ecclesiastical site. Ten ogham stones were used in building a rectangular chamber (Moore 1999, 151, 172-3) - five as lintels, which are now removed and placed upright beside the souterrain, and five as lining stones for the sides, which remain in position. Monument 'The sixth lintel'. Greenstone, measuring 1.49m x 0.34m x 0.17m (converted from Macalister 1945, 271). Text Inscription on three angles (up-down-up), and in good condition, except for a fracture of the top of the stone, which has removed the middle of the third word... After the N, a mistaken B was blocked out: it was not deepened, and the A was cut over it. The first A of SALAR is broken away, and the space between the scores of L in CELI is flaked. If there were such a name as Crisalar, it would exactly fill the vacant space, but this is not a suggested restoration - only an indication of the length of the damaged word (Macalister 1945, 271-2). Transcription CUNALEGEA MAQI C[....]SALAR CELI AVI QVECI Translation 'of Conlang's son, descendant of Q.' Commentary The personal name CUNALEGEA contains the commonly occurring element CUNA- 'dog, hound' (McManus 1991, 102). A rare example from Ireland of writing QV for Q in Irish names using the Latin alphabet: QVECI = QECI? cp. MAQVI for MAQI (McManus 1991, 126) This is the only known example of the sequence X MAQQI Y CELI AVI Z (McManus 1991, 171 n17) Locations Found Discovered used as the sixth lintel of a souterrain (Macalister 1945, 271) in townland Drumlohan and barony Decies without Drum. (GPS coordinates -7.465370, 52.163318) Original Unknown Last Recorded Erected beside the souterrain on site at Drumlohan. The present location of this stone can be accessed via the National Monuments Service public map viewer on www.archaeology.ie. History of Recording Discovered in 1867 but ogham inscriptions not fully read until souterrain was dismantled in 1936 (Macalister 1945, 267). References Kirwan, E. M. (1987): 'Drumlohan: A survey of its antiquities', Decies 35, pp 33-40. Kirwan, E. M. (1985): 'The Ogham stones at Drumlohan, reconsidered', Decies 28, pp 6–12. Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, pp 267-70, 271-2. McManus, D. (1991): A guide to ogam. Maynooth Monographs 4, pp 102, 126. Moore, M. (1999): Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford. Dublin, pp 151, 172-3. Rhys, J. (1899): 'The Drumlohan oghams', JRSAI 29, pp 390-403. Websites and Online Databases CISP (Celtic Inscribed Stones Project): www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/ Monasticon Hibernicum database - Early Christian Ecclesiastical Settlement in Ireland 5th to 12th Centuries: monasticon.celt.dias.ie