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Ogham stone

Letter (Iveragh By.), County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ogham stone, Letter, County Kerry, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Letter (Iveragh By.)
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
51.92553, -10.22427
SMR number
KE079-065002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

KE079-065004- is located in rough pasture on the S facing slope of the spur which runs W from Bentee mountain. It consists of an oval platform, measuring 17.7m N-S x 25m E-W, on which an ogham stone, two possible leachta and a burial area are located. The platform reaches a maximum height of 2.8m at S, where a possible entrance survives as a recessed area flanked on one side by an upright pillar. The original limits of the site may be preserved in a curving field boundary at E.

Ogham Stone (KE079-065002-): This stone stands close to the SE corner of KE079-065001-, and is 1.22m high, .28 wide and .1m thick. It inclines slightly to S. Macalister (1945, 233) read the inscription as:

ANM GATTEGLAN

Only the initial three and final four characters are now clearly discernible. The inscription was executed in finely incised scores which are obscured on the stone’s lichen-covered surface. Macalister noted that the E was indicated by the forfid.

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. 962. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 30 July 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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