Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Churchclara, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchclara
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65545, -7.14591
- SMR number
- KK020-017003-
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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
Within a pre-Romanesque church (KK020-017001-), which was later extended westward, the original church becoming the chancel. This ogham stone, first noted in 1869 (Anon. 1868-9, 281-2; Macalister 1945, 33-4, no. 28), was reused as a sill for a round-headed window which was inserted in the E gable in the late 12th/early 13th century, replacing the original window (Ó Carragáin 2010, 158, fig. 166). It is a long rectangular block of red sandstone (dims. 1.55m x 0.22m) with seven closely set incised strokes visible on its lower edge at S end. Macalister (ibid.) read the inscription as TASEGAGNI [MAQ]I MUCOI MACORBO. McManus (1997, 67) could only be certain of ...MUC... MAC... . A second ogham stone (KK020-017010-) was discovered in the 1970s, built into the base of the N wall of the nave (Manning and Moore 1997, 370-372).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Nora White
Date of revised upload: 18 November 2020
References
Ó Carragáin, T. 2010 Churches in early medieval Ireland: architecture, ritual and memory. New Haven and London. Yale University Press.
Anon. 1868-9 Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 10, 85-7, 141-7, 213, 281-2.
McManus, D. 1991 A guide to ogam. Maynooth: Monographs 4. Maynooth. An Sagart.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Manning, C. and Moore, F. 1997 A second ogham stone at Clara. In Peritia 11, 370-72.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.