Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Knockalassa, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockalassa
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ogham Stone (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.83180, -9.27390
- SMR number
- CL031-033002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This flat slab (2.87 x .87m) is known as the 'Mount Callan ogham stone'. Cut on a stemline running down the middle of the stone, it is a late scholastic ogham and has no connection with the 360 or so earlier ogham stones found throughout the country. 'The Mount Callan ogham stone is [today] considered to be modern, carved some time around 1780... It influenced not only the literary controversy [as the inscription supposedly marks the grave of Conán, one of Fionn Mac Cumhaill's warriors] but also stimulated antiquarian fieldwork and provided inspiration for the study of ogham' (de hÓir 1983, 43).
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 15 September 2016
References
de hÓir, Siobhán (1983): 'The Mount Callan ogham stone and its context', North Munster Antiquarian Journal 25, 43–57.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.