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Ogham stone (present location)

Townparks (Upper Dundalk By.), County Louth, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ogham stone (present location), Townparks, County Louth, 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
Townparks (Upper Dundalk By.)
County
Louth
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.00463, -6.39712
SMR number
LH007-188----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This is the present location of this stone, which is on display in the County Museum, Dundalk. It was discovered in 1977 in the course of an excavation of a souterrain (LH007-072005-) where it was used as a lintel (see LH007-072006-). '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 1997, 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

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

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