Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Killogrone, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killogrone
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.91861, -10.17916
- SMR number
- KE080-046003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Cross-Inscribed Ogham Stone: This stone stands 1.95m high and measures .25m x .13m at base. Its upper end tapers to a rather rough point. The inscription was read by Macalister (1945, 229) as:
ANM MOLEGOMRID MACI VECUMEN
The vowels E and O are represented by the forfeda. An I, between the M and R of the second word, was dismissed by Macalister as modern nicking. The last three letters of the word MACI are no longer discernible. A roughly executed cross, possibly secondary, is carved at the base of the stone. Brash recorded that the stone stood upside-down prior to its removal to the Christian Brothers' monastery in Cahersiveen in the 1870s (1879, 240). It was returned to the site shortly afterwards.
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. 959. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 13 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.