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Ogham stone

Donaghmore, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ogham stone, Donaghmore, County Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Donaghmore
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.37698, -6.55315
SMR number
KD006-005002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Discovered in 1902 by Lord Walter Fitzgerald (1903-5, 26) in the NE sector of Donaghmore graveyard (KD006-005004-), where, according to O'Hanluain (1935-45, 170), it marked an O'Farrell family grave. Macalister (1945, 130-1, no. 26) recorded the stone's dimensions (0.76 x 0.36 x 0.23m, converted from Macalister) and read the inscription as: NETTAVRECC [KOI] MAQI MUCCOI TRENALUGGO. McManus (1997, 66, 79) suggested that there was enough room for a more likely NETTAVROICC or NETTAVROECC and that Macalister's KOI was doubtful. The stone is now in the National Museum of Ireland (DU018-173----).

Compiled by: Nora White

Date of upload: 14 September 2016

References

Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.

McManus, D. 1991 A guide to ogam. Maynooth: Monographs 4. Maynooth. An Sagart.

FitzGerald, W. 1902 Discovery of an Ogham Stone near Maynooth, Co. Kildare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 32, 267-8.

FitzGerald, Lord W. 1903-5 Notes on an Ogham-inscribed stone recently discovered in the Donaghmore Churchyard, near Maynooth, in the County Kildare, with a reading of its inscription by Professor John Rhys. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 4, 155-60.

Rhys, J. 1903 Notes on the ogam-inscribed stones of Donaghmore, Co. Kildare, and Inisvickillane, Co. Kerry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 33, 75-9.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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