Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone (present location)
Ardcanaght, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardcanaght
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.16914, -9.72579
- SMR number
- KE047-026001-
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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
One of two ogham stones (see KE047-026003- for details of second stone) discovered by the Tralee field club in the 1940s in a nearby burial ground (KE047-037----, ‘Killeen Old Burial Ground’). Both are now located in a modern enclosure beside a standing stone (KE047-026---- with rock art (KE047-026002-). This ogham stone (0.42m (above ground) x 0.43m x 0.15m) is badly damaged with the bottom lost 'as well as about half of the inscribed edge of the surviving portion' (Macalister 1945, 241, no. 246a). All that survives of the inscription is: ...]V MAQI[... [Son of]. Only two scores of the final I remain and the V was below ground level on the last visit. Listed by Dr. White as Ardcanaght I. Cross-referenced with KE047-037001-.
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: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/version2013/stone.php?lang=en&site=Ardcanaght&stoneinfo=description&stone=246a._Ardcanaght_I
Compiled by: Dr. Nora White
Date of upload: 25 January 2017
References
Hayward, R. 1987 In the kingdom of Kerry. Dundalk. Dundalgan Press. Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.