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Ogham stone

Priesttown (Newcastle Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842) covering the location of Ogham stone, Priesttown (Newcastle Par.), County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 1st edition (1829–1842), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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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

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

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

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