Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Greenhill, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Greenhill
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68997, -7.47771
- SMR number
- KK013-067003-
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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
Moore (1874-9, 45) records that a farmer, 'unsettled from the flooring of a modern out-office adjoining [Killahy Church KK013-067003-], a five [1.5m] or six feet [c. 1.8m] slab, on which were numerous incised strokes'. Unfortunately the slab was subsequently broken up when the graveyard wall was being built, but Moore (ibid.) goes on to say that he, 'discovered a small fragment of it inserted as [a] coigne [quoin] in the north angle of the enclosure; and though much effaced I have no doubt but that the incised characters thereon were Ogham'. None of the ogham fragments were visible when the graveyard was visited in 1987, though it is likely that some, including the piece mentioned by Moore, are incorporated in the graveyard wall.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 March 2020
References
Moore, Very Rev. Canon 1874-9 Parochial papers. Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society 1, 23-40, 45.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.