Aultagh Ogham Stone
The Oghamstein of Aultagh ( Irish Alltach ) is a boulder with the dimensions 1.12 m long, 0.76 m wide and 0.36 m thick. It stands near a farm and the R584 road southeast of Crustera in County Cork , Ireland .
The old Irish inscription of the Oghamstone consists of two words, divided by the so-called feather, which usually only marks the beginning and the end of the inscription. The inscription reads "Ubedabo Altasi".
The Irish archaeologist Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870–1950) found during an investigation that the writer apparently did not understand the concept of the pen (>) and only copied something that was written for him. The stone also bears two star-shaped carvings, one on the left and the other at the end of the center line. Center lines carved on the surface, usually formed by the edge of the stone, are rare in Ireland but are common in Oghamin scripts in Scotland .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 46 '11.9 " N , 9 ° 5' 25.1" W.