Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Legan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Legan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.53471, -7.16298
- SMR number
- KK028-026002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A cross-inscribed ogham stone (2.03 x 0.51 x 0.42m, converted from Macalister 1945, 38, no. 34), which was `formerly a corner-stone (?) in a now ruined structure called Legan Castle (KK028-026001-) ' (Macalister, ibid.), is today standing by the doorway. Macalister read the much worn inscription as: LOBB[I] K[OI] MAQQI MUC[COI] [RI]N[I] but McManus (1997, 67) could only be certain of: [..]LL[..][....]MAQQ[..]m[..]C[...].
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 3 May 2016
References
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.