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
- WA021-003004-
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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 fractured stone (see WA031-045004-; dims. 1.7m x 0.35m; T 0.13m) has a fragmentary inscription that has been read by Macalister (1945, 284, no. 289) as: ...]VAGNI MUCOI CUNIA. (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.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stone (present location)under 1 mi
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- 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.