Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone (present location)
Newtown (clonbeg Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.