Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Spiddal, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spiddal
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.80495, -6.75166
- SMR number
- ME005-104003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Three stones with fragments of ogham inscriptions were re-used as roofstones in souterrain 2 (ME005-104----). This sandstone piece (L 1.3m plus; dims 0.25m x 0.25m) was in the transverse passage and was probably shaped to provide stemlines for the inscription visible on two angles. The inscription has been read by Fionnbarr Moore as: MAQI…BIQ…on one angle, but the other angle could not be read because it was too tightly wedged in the roof. (Eogan 1990, 62)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 5 September 2018
References
Eogan, G. 1990 Ballynee Souterrains, Co. Meath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 120, 41-64.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.