Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Knockboy (decies Without Drum By., Seskinan Par.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockboy (decies Without Drum By., Seskinan Par.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ogham Stones (Built in Wall)
- Coordinates
- 52.19474, -7.68486
- SMR number
- WA013-034014-
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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
Six ogham stones are re-used, mainly as lintels, and a seventh is standing in the corner of the medieval parish church of Seskinan at Knockboy (WA013-034001-). This ogham stone (1.20m x 0.20m x 0.18m, converted from Brash 1868-9, 125) is the inner lintel of the lower window in the W gable, discovered in 1851 by G. V. du Noyer. The inscription was read by Macalister (1907, 210) as: VORTIGURN. However, it is not clear if there is anything following the personal name, which may be hidden in the masonry. On a return visit in 1938, he found that the west wall was 'a dense mass of ivy, which entirely obscured' the stone and it's inscription (Macalister 1945, 288-9, no. 297). (Moore 1999, 1495)
This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=297
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 16 October 2017
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Moore, M. 1999 Archaeological inventory of county Waterford. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Brash, R.R. 1868-9 On the Seskinan ogham inscriptions. County of Waterford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 10, 118-30.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1907 Studies in Irish epigraphy, vol. 3. London. David Nutt.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.