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Ogham stone (present location)

Newtown (Clonbeg Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ogham stone (present location), Newtown (Clonbeg Par.), County Tipperary South, 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
Newtown (Clonbeg Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.42465, -8.19168
SMR number
TS073-036----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In the grounds of the Aherlow House hotel, SE of the original hotel (built c. 1928) and S of the extension which is to the E of the old hotel. An upright red sandstone stone which is roughly rectangular in plan (dims. max. Wth 0.41m; max T 0.32m; H 1.38m above ground) and tapers towards the top (top Wth 0.15m). The stone was moved here from Mountrussell, near Kilfinnan, Co. Limerick (LI055-036----) in 1947 and is currently embedded upright in a flower bed in the grounds of the hotel. The ogham inscription is incised along the NW and SW edges of the stone and according to Macalister (1945, 254) reads: IVAGENI MAQI LAISCEMITA.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Nearby in the register

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

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