Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Kilgobnet, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgobnet
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KE065-109001-
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Portion of an ogham stone (KE065-109001-) was discovered before 1869 in a souterrain (KE065-109----) in a rath close to Kilgobnet village (Brash 1879, 238). It measured 3 foot 4 inches (1m) x 1 foot 3 inches (.38m) at top, and narrowed to 1 foot 1 inch (.32m) x 4 inches (.1m) at base. The stone was subsequently used as a door lintel, but when last recorded, in 1910, it was lying in a manure heap in the village (Macalister 1945, 207). The inscription, along two opposing angles and across the top of the stone, reads:
ANNVENI TEGG[ . . .
Spalling had obscured the remainder of the inscription. While the precise location of the rath from which this stone derived is unknown, it appears likely to be this example.
The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 524. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
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.
Brash, R.R. 1879 The ogam inscribed monuments of the gaedhil in the British Islands. London. George Bell and Sons.