Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Baile Mór Thiar, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Mór Thiar
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.12208, -10.32871
- SMR number
- KE053-099----
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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
Discovered in 2013 in the course of excavating a pit beside a mobile home. The stone, 0.25m long, is a sandstone fragment and contains the remnants of an ogham inscription in the scholastic scribal tradition whereby the arris or stemline is drawn on the stone rather than on the edge with the letters written with respect to this line. In this instance only a few letters survive and they most likely read SIGA . . . The stone is currently in private possession.
Compiled by: Fionnbarr Moore
Date of upload: 5 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.