Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Garranmillon Lower, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garranmillon Lower
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ogham Stones
- Coordinates
- 52.18803, -7.48582
- SMR number
- WA024-006004-
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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
Two ogham stones placed 2.5m apart which may have originally been a standing stone pair, are just N of church site (WA024-006002-). The N stone (WA024-006003-) is Old Red Sandstone. The S stone has been re-erected (Hewson 1896, 27-8). It is also sandstone (dims. 0.8m x 0.3m; H 1.82m) with a pointed top, and its inscription has been read as MELAGIA by Macalister (1945, 279, no. 284). (Moore 1999, 1489)
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 26 July 2016
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Hewson, Rev. E.E. 1896 On ogams, including three recently discovered in the County Kilkenny, and one in the County Waterford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 26, 22-8.
Barry, Rev. E. 1896 On three ogham stones near Kilmacthomas. Waterford and South East of Ireland Archaeological Journal 2, 228-33.
Nearby in the register
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.