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
- WA031-045008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 site. This stone with the inscription …U MAQI CUMOGODUU MUCO.. was found at Kilgrovan church site (WA031-045----) in the 1960s (Lucas 1969, 105). It is now in the National Museum of Ireland (see DU018-247----).
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=Kilgrovan_VI
Updated by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 7 January 2015
References
McManus, D. 1991 A guide to ogam. Maynooth: Monographs 4. Maynooth. An Sagart.
Lucas, A. T. 1969 National Museum of Ireland: archaeological acquisitions in the year 1966. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 99, 93-115.
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