Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Ballybarrack, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybarrack
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98618, -6.42446
- SMR number
- LH007-072006-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This ogham stone was discovered in 1977 in the course of an excavation of a souterrain (LH007-072005-) where it was used as a lintel. It is part of the National Museum of Ireland collection and is currently on display in the County Museum, Dundalk (see LH007-188----). 'The top has been broken off, probably as part of the appropriation for use in the souterrain. Though incised very finely the consonants are legible but the vowel notches were not cut very deeply and many are uncertain (indicated here by lower-case or a dot). The inscription reads up both angles as follows: Left angle: MAQI CORaBiR MaQi? TAN.b/l ... Right angle: NeTa SaLaGIa MAQi MuCoi … (McManus 1991, 76, no. xvii).
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 12 February 2017
References
McManus, D. 1991 A guide to ogam. Maynooth: Monographs 4. Maynooth. An Sagart.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Rock artunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.