Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Donaghmore, County Kildare, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (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
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.