Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Priesttown (newcastle Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Priesttown (newcastle Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Dallaun
- Coordinates
- 52.22216, -7.75788
- SMR number
- TS091-007----
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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
This ogham stone is located in flat pasture, land undulating gently to the NE, in upland terrain. A farm road runs immediately SE of a field boundary to the SE. The stone is red sandstone (max. H 1.98m; min. H 1.61m), roughly rectangular in plan (L 0.57m NE; 0.91m SE; 0.87m SW; 0.73m NW). The ogham inscription is on the S angle, only the lower portion is visible, the upper portion is obscured by lichen and weathering. The top of the stone reduces in height towards the NE. The SW face appears to be the front. The stone was identified by Power (1900, 97-100) who read the ogham inscription as: SUTACUNAS MAQI. Macalister (1945, 256) provides a slightly different interpretation: NETACUNAS MAQI LOBAC[CONA] and notes that the top of the stone is broken resulting in the loss of the end of the inscription.
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 26 September 2016
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1909 The ogham stones near Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 39, 294-6.
POWER, P. 1900 A new ogham from Tipperary. Journal of the Archaeological Society of Waterford and Southeast of Ireland 6, 97-100.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.