Ogham stone

The National Monuments Service's description

National Monument No. 329. One of 7, or possibly 8, ogham stones at Kilcoolaght Burial Ground/Cill Chuallachta (KE065-003001-), inside iron railings erected in the 1940s. Brash also recorded a tradition that a church (KE065-003003-) formerly stood on a rectangular area of untilled ground ‘a few yards from the cilleen'. No trace of this church is now apparent.'
This stone stands .76m high and measures .24m x .2m at base. Inscribed on all four angles, it features two inscriptions which probably continued across its now missing upper portion. The characters of the second inscription are more finely cut than those of the first, but both are clearly decipherable. Macalister (1945, 202, no. 206) read them as: ANM VIRR[. . .]ANNI TIGIRN and CEDATTOQA MAQI VEDELMET[T]. The initial AN of ANM, some of the R scores and -N of TIGIRN are below current ground level (2015 visit). (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, no. 950)

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=206

Compiled by: Nora White

Date of upload: 8 February 2017

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 38/1935).

References

Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.

O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. 1996 The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry. Cork University press.

McManus, D. 1991 A guide to ogam. Maynooth: Monographs 4. Maynooth. An Sagart.

Brash, R.R. 1879 The ogam inscribed monuments of the gaedhil in the British Islands. London. George Bell and Sons.