Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Letter (iveragh By.), County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Letter (iveragh By.)
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- KE079-086----
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The National Monuments Service's description
This fragment of an ogham-inscribed sandstone pillar measures .66m long, .28m wide and .07m thick, and is now in Kerry County Museum in Tralee (L1992:29; CPM L286; see KE029-321----). When first recorded by Macalister (1939a, 17), it was built into a stile a short distance S of MacCrehin's Castle (KE079-068001-). The well-preserved ogham scores are deeply cut and read:
. . . ]QNETN[ . . . Two vowel notches follow the last consonant but the edge of the stone is spalled off after this point. (Macalister 1945, no. 238; O’Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, no. 919)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 23 February 2017
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1939 Recent epigraphic discoveries in Co. Kerry. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 45C, 13-20.
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.