Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Faunkill-And-The-Woods, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faunkill-And-The-Woods
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gallaun
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaun
- Coordinates
- 51.71304, -9.94368
- SMR number
- CO102-013----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a rockcrop overlooking Ballycrovane Harbour to the West. A tall rectangular stone (H 4.7m; 1.02m x 0.32m) narrowing towards the top. Now supported at the base with concrete; long axis NW-SE. The ogham inscription is on the NW edge read by Macalister (1945, 70, no. 66) and McManus (1997, 93) as MAQI-DECCEDDAS AVI TURANIAS. (Power et al. 1992, no. 1036)
This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=66
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 18 April 2016
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 172/1942).
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Power, D., Byrne, E., Egan, U., Lane, S. and Sleeman, M. 1992 (Reprint 2003) Archaeological inventory of county Cork, vol. 1: West Cork. Dublin. Stationery Office.
McManus, D. 1991 A guide to ogam. Maynooth: Monographs 4. Maynooth. An Sagart.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.