Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone (present location)
Coolmagort, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolmagort
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.06050, -9.63373
- SMR number
- KE065-078009-
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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
This ogham stone (see KE057-078002-) formerly lay in the chancel of Kilbonane Church (KE057-078001-) and was moved to Coolmagort where it is on display with seven other ogham stones from the nearby souterrain (Macalister 1945, 235, no. 241). It has three lines of ogham inscription; one on an edge, another along a line scratched down along the face of the stone with a smaller line half its length beside it. There is a third inscription on the other edge. The inscription is unclear at the repaired break across the middle. According to Macalister (1903, 175; 1945, 235-7), the main inscription on the face, including the smaller line, is independent of the inscription on the angles. Macalister (ibid.), read the inscription on the face as: NIR*** MN[I]DAGNIESSICONIDDALA AMIT BAIDAGNI. Macalister deciphers the inscription on the dexter angle as: B[AID]AGNI MAQI ADDILONA and on the sinister angle as: NAGUNI MUCO BASIDANI (ibid.).
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/search.php?ciic=241
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 27 February 2017
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1903 The ogham monument at Kilbonane. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 33, 175-8.
McManus, D. 1991 A guide to ogam. Maynooth: Monographs 4. Maynooth. An Sagart.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.