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Ogham stone

Ballyboodan, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ogham stone, Ballyboodan, 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
Ballyboodan
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47010, -7.22265
SMR number
KK031-058----

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A large rectangular fallen slab of close-grained slate (dims. L 2.87m; Wth at W end 1.78m tapering to Wth at E end of 1.55m; max. T 0.45m tapering to 0.28m at the E end), in its own enclosure in a corner of a field by the side of the road. On the N edge of the upper face, along the eastern portion for a length of c. 1.15m from the E edge, is an ogham inscription read by Macalister (1945, 42-4, no. 38) as: CORBI KOI MAQI LABRID. According to Macalister (ibid.) the stone was originally standing upright in the field in which it is now recumbent.
(National Monument no. 599)

This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=38

Compiled by: Nora White

Date of revised upload: 11 January 2017

References

Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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