Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Cool East, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cool East
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Gallaun
- Coordinates
- 51.91125, -10.35914
- SMR number
- KE078-009003-
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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
Standing in the SE quadrant of is a tall slate pillar, 1.92m high and .48m x .13m at base; NNW-SSE. Its NW edge bears an ogham inscription and a cross occurs on both faces. Macalister (1945, 224) read the inscription as:
LOGITTI MAQI ERPENN
The first four letters and the initial stroke of the first T are now buried, but the remaining characters are well-preserved. The P is represented by the I-forfid cut on the face of the same stone. The final strokes of the second N appear to have been abbreviated by the addition of a cross to the WSW face, which is of Latin type with large, bulbous terminals. On the other face of the stone is a roughly equal-armed cross with expanded terminals.
The above description is derived from O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J. (compilers) 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University press. (1996), no. 940. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 11 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.