Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Kilcoolaght East, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcoolaght East
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.07404, -9.74575
- SMR number
- KE065-003007-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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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.'
O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, no. 950) recorded this stone as standing '.74m high and measures .24m x .18m at base. A portion of the neatly scored inscription occurs beneath present ground level'. Macalister (1945, 203, no. 209) read it as: . . ]GGO MAQI AGILL[. . . The stone is now broken before the final -LL and lying in the enclosure. (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=209
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
Brash, R.R. 1879 The ogam inscribed monuments of the gaedhil in the British Islands. London. George Bell and Sons.
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
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.