Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone (present location)
Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mullagh
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.81298, -6.95702
- SMR number
- CV040-047----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is the present location, at St Kilians Heritage Centre, of the Mullagh ogham stone. It is believed (local tradition) to have originated from an early church site at Rantavan (CV044-018001-). It was subsequently removed to the graveyard of 'Templekelly' at Mullagh (see CV040-044003-), and reused as a headstone positioned just W of the ruined church of Mullagh (Ferguson 1875, 303). The stone is limestone and measures 0.64 x 0.27 x 0.11m (Macalister 1945, 299). Macalister (1945, 300, no. 312) read the inscription as OSBBAR.
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 10 September 2016
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Ferguson, S. 1875 On an ogham inscription at Mullagh, Co. Cavan. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 1C, 303.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.