Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Gleensk,kilkeehagh, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleensk,kilkeehagh
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.02774, -10.04532
- SMR number
- KE063-012001-
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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
An ogham stone at Laghtfinnan Penitential Station: This cairn... is located close to the top of a spur which extends NW from Drung Hill. It straddles the boundary of Gleensk and Kilkeehagh townlands, which is also a parish boundary. The ogham stone is located on a small platform located off-centre on the top of the cairn. The stone is 1.06m in maximum height and measures .33m x .2m in basal dimensions. The remains of an inscription on the NE angle was read by Macalister (1945, 227, no. 234) as: MAQI R[... . After the R there is `a single vowel notch...and possibly a second, after which everything is scaled away for 8.5'', and one vowel notch follows'. ((O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, no. 389)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 8 February 2017
References
O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. 1996 The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry. Cork University press.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.