Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Canburrin, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canburrin
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.92167, -10.18557
- SMR number
- KE080-045----
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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
Located on the S side of a rocky spur which extends E from Bentee mountain, this ogham stone stands at the edge of a forestry plantation about 530m NW of Killogrone ecclesiastical site (KE080-046001) and close to the junction of Canburrin, Killoe and Killogrone townlands. When first noted, only its upper .45m protruded from the peat-cover of the slope; the stone was subsequently dug out (The Kerryman, 20/5/1939). Of sandstone and irregular in elevation, it now stands 1.2m high and measures .27m x .18m at base. Macalister (1945, 224) read the inscription as:
ANM CALUMANN MAQ[. . .
The initial vowel notch is no longer apparent, nor is the third notch of the U. Only four grooves of the Q survive, and it may have been a C.
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. 910. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 29 July 2013
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