TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ogham stone

Knockmahon, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ogham stone, Knockmahon, 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
Knockmahon
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.13770, -7.35431
SMR number
WA025-065002-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

During the 1980s a fragment of an ogham stone (WA025-065001-) was found at Knockmahon promontory fort (WA025-065----). In the 1990s a second, complete ogham stone was found in the fosse. Measuring 0.87m high x 0.59m x 0.25m it bears the following inscription: VEDILIMETO/ MAQI/ TOQITAQ. Both stones have been moved to the Geological Park at Bunmahon (see WA025-128002-) c. 600m to the NW.

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: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=Knockmahon_II

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Updated by: Paul Walsh

Revised date of upload: 7 January 2015

References

Moore, M. 1999 Archaeological inventory of county Waterford. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Manning, C. 1989 A promontory fort and ogham stone at Knockmahon, Co. Waterford. Decies, no. 40, 7-11.

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ogham stone in Waterford All County Waterford records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map