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CIIC 178. Coumeenole North (COM DHÍNEOL THUAIDH), Co. Kerry

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National Monuments Service Record Number: KE052-059002-

Site Type

Promontory fort

Description

Site

Dunmore (An Dún Mór) promontory fort. 'This large headland, rising 328 feet/100m OD, projects W into the Blasket Sound at the extreme W tip of the Dingle Peninsula. A bank and external fosse, with a low outer bank run N-S across the headland for about 500m... an area of about 80 acres is enclosed by the defences' (Cuppage 1986, 89). The ogham stone stands (leaning to one side) on the summit. (Macalister 1899, 279-80) was informed that a souterrain, containing bones and a cross-inscribed stone, had once been uncovered on the headland.

Monument

Grit (Macalister 1945, 163), 2.00m x 0.45m x 0.30m .

Text

Up-up. 'Scores pocked and rubbed, and though worn, quite legible' (Macalister 1945, 171). According to Cuppage (1986, 90), 'the 2nd last word, as recorded by Macalister, is now unclear. The final A is not visible either'. McManus (1991, 56-7) agrees with regard to MU but had difficulty with the N, rather than the final A of DOVINIA. He was also unsure of the final S of MAQI-ERCIAS.

Transliteration

ERC MAQI MAQI-ERCIAṢ ṂỤ DOVIṆIẠ

Translation

'of Erc son of Mac-Erce descendant? of Duibne'

Commentary

  • The preservation of the -S in MAQI-ERCIAS in combination with its loss in DOVINIA and the loss of -I in ERC suggests dating this inscription to the first half of the sixth century (McManus 1991, 95, 97).

  • MAQ(Q)I- (gen. of MAQQAS), as a first element meaning 'devotee' or the like, rather than 'son', and Erc? (a divine name) 'heaven' or 'cow'? (McManus 1991, 107, 108-9).

  • cp. CIIC 125. Rooves More II, Cork (MAQI-ERCIAS MAQI VALAMNI); CIIC 169. Ballyeightragh, Kerry (MAQI-LIAG MAQI-ERCA); CIIC 175 Burnham West, Kerry (MAQI-ERCCIA MAQQI MUCOI DOVINIA); CIIC 205. Derrygariff, Kerry (S ... BNAG M[AQQ]I-RC̣IA ); CIIC 262. Seemochuda, Waterford (ERCAGNI MAQ[I-ERCIAS]).

  • All but one of the inscriptions containing the tribal name DOVINIAS ('of Duibne') have been found on the Dingle peninsula, barony of Corkaguiney (Corcu Duibne), which got its name from that tribe or sept (McManus 1991, 111).

Locations

Found

lying prostrate on the summit of the promontory called Dunmore Head (Macalister 1945, 170) in the townland of Coumeenole and barony of Corkaguiney. (GPS coordinates -10.473639, 52.110137/>)

Original

Find location possibly original site

Last Recorded

At or close to find site on Dún Mór promontory fort National Monuments Service Historic Environment viewer on www.archaeology.ie.

History of Recording

'discovered by the Cork antiquaries Windele, Abell, and Horgan, in 1838; and was re-erected in the following year by a local priest, Rev. J. Casey' (Macalister 1945, 170).

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