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Ogham stone

Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ogham stone, Gowran, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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.

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