Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Dromore, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dromore
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.07435, -7.84741
- SMR number
- WA029-042010-
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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
One of three ogham stones from Cill Tire burial ground (WA029-042002-). This stone (1.42m x 0.30m x 0.28m) of coarse-grained slate and very brittle, is broken into four pieces and was found during excavation of the site by Macalister (1935b, 12). The inscription was initially read by him as RITUVVAS: he subsequently revised this as CATTUVIR (1945, vol. 1, 264). The stone is in the National Museum of Ireland (DU018-388----).
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=268
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Revised date of upload: 7 January 2015
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1935b The excavation of Kiltera, Co. Waterford. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 43C, 1-16.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Harbison, P. 1992 Guide to the national and historic monuments of Ireland. Gill and Macmillan Ltd., Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.