Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Castlekeeran, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlekeeran
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.74090, -6.95421
- SMR number
- ME016-006006-
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
An ogham stone (H c. 0.6m) was unearthed in the graveyard (ME016-006007-) of the early monastery of Diseart Chiarain (ME016-006----) in 1898 and it is set up incorrectly with the top below. It is just N of the church remains, and has been read as: COVAGNI MAGI MUCOI LUGUNI (O'Connell 1957, 26; Macalister 1945, vol. 1, 46). However, a more recent interpretation (Heery and Newman Maguire 2012) has identified further letters and provides the reading: T_COVAGNI MAQI MUCOI LUGUNI ITI, and they suggest that the person commemorated is Segéne of Clara whose death is recorded in the Annals of Tigernach in 784.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload; 6 June, 2014
Amended: 21 July 2022
References
O'Connell, P. 1957 Castle Kieran. Ríocht na Mídhe, 1, 3, 17-33.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Heery, M. and Newman Maguire, B. 2012 Previously unpublished Oghams at Castlekieran, Carnacross. Ríocht na Mídhe, 23, 26-30.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.