In pasture, on a gentle S-facing slope on the N side of the valley of the Mealagh River. Macalister (1945, vol. 1, 59) recorded an ogham inscription on the dexter edge of the E face of the upright SW stone (H 2m; Wth 1.1m; T 0.6m) of a pair of standing stones (CO106-035----). He read the ogham inscription as ANM SAINA MAG OGALA MUCOI TEMOCA (ibid.). Only faint traces of this inscription, which was damaged some time after 1845, are now visible. Macalister also recorded that there may have been a third stone here up to 1870 (Macalister 1945, 59, no. 55; Macalister 1907, 31-7). The ogham stone was probably part of a prehistoric stone alignment and the inscription added at a later date to emphasise a land ownership or territorial claim.
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