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
- 52.19475, -7.68486
- SMR number
- WA013-034015-
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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-). An eighth ogham stone, a 'slab of old red sandstone' measuring 0.66m x 0.28m x 0.10m (converted from Brash 1879, 270), was moved to Salterbridge House (WA021-011----) sometime before 1869 (attached photograph from Macalister 1907, 212). Reported to Macalister (1945, 289) by Richard Chearnley (Salterbridge, proprietor of estate) to have come from Seskinan church at Knockboy. The stone was lost by 1940 when Macalister (ibid.) revisited Salterbridge. It was read by Redmond (1885-6, 418-19) as OMONG EDIAS MAQI MUI BITE, and by Macalister (1945, 289, no. 299) as: [MAQI?] MONGEDIAS MAQI MUIBITI.
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=299
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 16 October 2017
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1907 Studies in Irish epigraphy, vol. 3. London. David Nutt.
Brash, R.R. 1879 The ogam inscribed monuments of the gaedhil in the British Islands. London. George Bell and Sons.
Redmond, G. 1885-6b Proceedings - Remarks on an ogham stone lying in Salterbridge Demesne. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 17, 418-19.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.