Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone (present location)
Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tralee
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.26679, -9.70595
- SMR number
- KE029-324----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Found at Fermoyle beach near Cloghane on the Dingle peninsula. The stone is a long linear‑shaped stone of old red sandstone, dimensions: 1.65m long, 0.4m in max width, 0.25m in max thickness. Now in Kerry County Museum, Tralee (KCM 2008: 134). The ogham inscription is very weathered and no meaningful interpretation has been reached. A full description is in preparation for publication (pers. comm. Fionnbarr Moore).
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 01 December 2017
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.