Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Glenawillin, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenawillin
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ogham Stone (1936)
- Coordinates
- 51.96699, -8.17559
- SMR number
- CO065-033----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Found within a souterrain (CO065-03202-) opened in 1844 inside a ringfort (CO065-03201-) next to Ballynatrasna House. Re-erected within the townland on the site of 'another erased rath' (CO065-097----) (Atkinson 1883-84, 309). The stone (H 6ft 4in; 1ft 8in x 1ft) has a worn inscription on the dexter angle of the SE face, read by Macalister (1945, 68, no. 64) as LODIMONI (reading downwards) and by O'Kelly (1945, 152-3) as LADIMANI. A second ogham stone (CO065-098----) found in the same souterrain in now on permanent display in the Stone Corridor, University College Cork (see CO074-146----). (Power et al. 1994, no. 4237)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 10 March 2016
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S. and Sleeman, M. 1994 Archaeological inventory of county Cork, vol. 2: East and South Cork. Dublin. Stationery Office.
O'Kelly, M.J. 1945b Review of Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, vol. 1, by R.A.S. Macalister. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 50, 152-3.
Atkinson, G.M. 1883-4 Notes and queries - Cill-caet-iairn and ogham stones at Lisgenan and Glenawillen. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 16, 306-10.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.