Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gowran
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62888, -7.06487
- SMR number
- KK020-060007-
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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
Found in the foundations of the chancel of the medieval parish church of St Mary's Gowran (KK020-060006-), when the chancel was demolished in 1827 to make way for a C of I church (Brash 1872-3; 437; Dolan 2000, vol. 3, 112). The ogham stone (max H 1.51m; max. Wth 0.43m; D 0.33) bears a 'large cross potent, crookedly set out [and] cut on the original base of the inscribed face . . . Inscription cut, on two edges (up-up) and though chipped in places, on the whole in quite good condition' (Macalister 1945, 38, no. 32). Macalister recorded the inscription as: MAQI-ERAC[I]AS [MA]QI DIMAQ[A] MUC[OI-- and McManus (1997, 66) as: [MAQI]-ERAC[IAS] [MAQI] D[I]M[A]Q[A] MUC[O--.
It is currently on display in the former C of I church.
See attached photographs:
KK020-060007-_02 Front and dexter side
KK020-060007-_03 Scanned image of front and dexter side
KK020-060007-_04 Front and sinister side
Compiled by: Nora White and Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 14 August 2019
References
Dolan, A. 2000 The large medieval churches of Leighlin, Ferns and Ossory. Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies: The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society, vol. 3, 102-55.
Brash, R.R. 1872-3 County of Kilkenny inscribed pillar-stones: Gowran. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 12, 437-44.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
McManus, D. 1991 A guide to ogam. Maynooth: Monographs 4. Maynooth. An Sagart.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.