Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone (present location)
Mountmelleray, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountmelleray
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ogham Stones
- Coordinates
- 52.18735, -7.85631
- SMR number
- WA021-003002-
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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
Five ogham stones from the church site of Kilgrovan (WA031-045001-) are presently displayed in the Buaille na gCuimhnte - Corner of Memories - exhibition at Mount Melleray Abbey. This stone (see WA031-045003-) has been recorded as 'greenstone' (dims. c. 1.37m x c. 0.47m; T 10cm) and the inscription has been read as: NISIGNI MAQI ER[….]I by Macalister (1945, 282-3, no. 287) but as: NISIGNI MAQ ER[….], without a final-I in MAQI, by O'Kelly (1945, 152-3). (Moore 1999, 1493)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 9 August 2016
References
Moore, M. 1999 Archaeological inventory of county Waterford. Dublin. Stationery Office.
O'Kelly, M.J. 1945b Review of Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, vol. 1, by R.A.S. Macalister. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 50, 152-3.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.