Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Dooghmakeon, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dooghmakeon
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicted
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicatedNot indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74205, -9.89390
- SMR number
- MA095-023002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in marram-grass covered dunes 120m E of the N end of Sruhir Strand. Burials (MA095-032001-) and a midden (MA095-032002-)are located 100m to W.
Macalister (1945, 11, no.8) records a 'limestone slab', 1.32 (above ground) x 0.61 x 0.15m, bearing 'a cross pattée in a circle, pocked' on one face and 'a badly worn and weathered' ogham inscription on the 'sinister edge' (more than half spalled away). He very tentatively read ...OVI MAQI and was unable to verify Rhys's (1898, 232) suggestion of CORBAGNI. According to Kelly (1897, 185), who first noted the inscription, the stone was found lying flat but was re-erected where it was found, with more than half buried in the sand. His sketch with measurements indicates that at time the re-erected stone stood to a height of c. 1.67m above ground, and ogham inscription was visible the lower portion of the stone, now deeply sunken in the ground.
An irregular-shaped, angular block of stone (H c. 1m; Wth 0.65m E-W; T 0.23m N-S) set upright in the ground, tilting to W. It bears a cross-in-circle (diam. 0.36m) on the broad S face and an ogham inscription on an angle of the narrow E face. The cross is created by inscribing arcs of a circle, the broadly splayed terminals of the arms and shaft merging with the curve of the enclosing circle. The base of the circle is now only a few centimeters above current ground level. The carving is partly obscured by blotches of lichen. Several scores of the ogham inscription are visible, cutting across the rather worn E angle of the stone, but the full inscription is no longer visible, much of it now concealed beneath the ground.
Attached images:
MA095-023001-_01.JPG Cross-in-circle on the S face of the stone
MA095-023001-_02.JPG Ogham script on E angle
MA095-023001-_03.JPG Ogham script on E angle
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy and Nora White
Revised upload: 22 July 2022
References
Rhys, P. 1898 Some Ogam-Stones in Connaught. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 28, 230-36.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Kelly, W.E. 1897 Miscellanea: Inscribed pillar-stones, County Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 27, 185-7.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.