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Ogham stone (present location)

Kilcomeragh, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ogham stone (present location), Kilcomeragh, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Kilcomeragh
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Ogham Stone
Coordinates
52.20287, -7.50907
SMR number
WA015-042----

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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

An ogham stone (1.45 x 0.43 x 0.28m, converted from Macalister, 1945) discovered in the Knockalafalla-Rathgormuck area (see WA003-082----) is now kept in the garden of a private residence (Comeragh Lodge). The inscription was read by Macalister (1945, 294, no. 306) as LUGUDI MAQI L...D...QA MOCOI DONM(A). (Barry 1896a, 232-3; Cochrane 1898, 408)

Compiled by: Nora White

Date of upload: 5 October 2017

References

Barry, Rev. E. 1896 On three ogham stones near Kilmacthomas. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 2, 228-33.

Cochrane, R. 1898 Ogam inscriptions discovered in Ireland in the year 1898. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 28, 399-408.

Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Nearby in the register

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

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