Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Patrickswell, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Patrickswell
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.88409, -6.68274
- SMR number
- CW004-011----
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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 gentle N-facing slope, just below the crest of a flat-topped hill, in tillage. The view N, NE-E is dominated by the southern Wicklow mountains, good view SE along the Slaney river valley, limited S by rising ground and extensive to the W, with hills to the NW. This is a pink granite stone (H 1.1m; 0.4m x 0.65m) with a badly weathered inscription on the SW angle. It includes the letters MAC. The stone is possibly connected with the nearby early ecclesiastical site at Waterstown (CW004-012001). (Brindley and Kilfeather 1993, no. 515) Preservation Order number: 3/1984.
See attached photographs:
CW004-011----_01 W face looking E
CW004-011----_02 S and W faces looking NE
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 17 October 2018
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1984).
References
Brindley, A.L. and Kilfeather, A. 1993 Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.