Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone (present location)
Townparks (upper Dundalk By.), County Louth, Ireland
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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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 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
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Fratres Cruciferiunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.