Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
An Baile Riabhach, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Baile Riabhach
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Mon. Pillar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monumental Pillar
- Coordinates
- 52.15439, -10.33144
- SMR number
- KE043-140008-
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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
National Monument No. 62. Templemanaghan/Teampall Mhanacháin or Teampall Geal and its associated burial ground lie on the lower E slopes of Lateevemore and command a magnificent view over Dingle Harbour and the Milltown valley.
Ogham stone (KE043-140008-) Fig. 148: Traditionally regarded as marking the grave of St. Manchan, this stone stands c. 1.75m high and is .56m wide at base. The ogham inscrits NE angle reads: QENILOCI MAQI MAQI-AINIA MUC(.... There is no trace whatsoever of the inscription in half uncial script which Macalister (1945, 163-4) noted beside the ogham inscription and which, according to him, read: FECT QUENILOC. The E face of the stone bears a plain equal-armed cross. A roughly equal-armed cross on the W face has an expanded terminal to its upper arm. A notch on the N angle of the stone may formerly have been a circular hole.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 824.
See attached photograph courtesy of Amanda Clarke
This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=170
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Revised date of upload: 2 January 2015
References
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.