Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Kilgrovan, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgrovan
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.08983, -7.54991
- SMR number
- WA031-045004-
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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 seven ogham stones from this early ecclesiastical site. This stone (recorded as 'slate', 1.8 x 0.53 x 0.15m converted from Macalister 1945) was found at Kilgrovan church site (WA031-045----) by William Williams in 1857 (Brash 1879, 256-7). It is now in Mount Melleray Cistercian monastery (WA021-003003-). The inscription has been read by Macalister (1945, 283-4, no. 288) as: DEBRAN[I] MAQI ELTI [A]V[I] [O]GA[TO]S. However, he notes that many of the vowel notches, in particular, are lost and that missing letters have been 'restored by a consideration of the spaces available'. (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.
Brash, R.R. 1868-9b Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 10, 438-9.
Brash, R.R. 1879 The ogam inscribed monuments of the gaedhil in the British Islands. London. George Bell and Sons.
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