(October 13, 2025) Macalister reports that this stone was found standing in a field. The top of the stone was broken off.
It is made of shale being 7' 0" x 2′ 7″ × 2′ 9″
Translation Using Ballymote Letter Assignments With Runic Akkadian Letters (Ogham Text 171)
Read bottom to top. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliterationLetter assignment chart used: Ogham ChartDictionary used: Latest Runic Akkadian dictionaryUp direction for ogham: left side- Nu E Tu. AKu UNu MuŠu. Mu ASu Ya Pa'u. Ru AŠu [Ya] ....
- Fate-revelations can disable astrology-magic. Emotion-owls can resist the night-powers. Fertility-fluids will not fate-shift the life-network-birds. Eagle-vultures will not spew-forth ....
Comment: This text seems to be promoting the use of the divine birds (owls and eagle-vultures/griffons). These are the causal agents of the motion and life power classes respectively.Traditional Translation Using Post-Bardic Revolution Letter Assignments
- NETACUNAS MAQI LOBAC [CONA]
No English translation givenMacalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1, page 256. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en