Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
An Baile íochtarach (par. Cill Dromann), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Baile íochtarach (par. Cill Dromann)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- KE043-250----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Two ogham stones were dislodged by a flood which affected the bed of a stream in this townland (Macalister 1945, 162-3; O'Sullivan 1931, 398). According to Curran, the find place was near Kilfountan Church (KE043-144003-). One was broken up for building material. The 2nd, of which this is the original location record, was preserved for a while in a farmhouse near Kildrum graveyard (KE143-130001-) and then removed to the grounds of St. Brendan's Seminary in Killarney where it remains today (see KE066-099---). It stands 1.31m high, is a maximum of .47m wide, and is from .08 to .12m thick. The inscription reads:
MAQI-LIAG MAQI ERC (A)
The final A, recorded by Macalister (1945, 162-3, No. 169), is no longer visible and the first I has been damaged where a notch has been cut into the edge of the stone. On one of the angles of the opposite side of the stone are some faint markings which Macalister considered to resemble 'an effaced ogham graffito'. (Cuppage 1986, no. 796)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 13 January 2017
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Cuppage, J. 1986 Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne.