Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ogham stone
Island, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Island
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ogham Stone
- Coordinates
- 52.11380, -7.48167
- SMR number
- WA032-029002-
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
Located just inside the bank of the ecclesiastical enclosure (WA032-029001-) at W. The stone is of slate and is in two fragments (1.42m x 0.49m x 0.15m). The inscription was read by Macalister (1945, 290-91, no. 300) as CUNNETAS MAQI GUC[OI] NETA-SEGAMONAS but McManus (1991 7, 94) notes that there is space for an expected A between the two Ns of CUN[A]NETAS and that it makes more sense to read MM than G for the two strokes before UC[OI]. (Moore 1999, no. 1490)
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=300
Compiled by: Nora White
Date of upload: 11 August 2016
References
Moore, M. 1999 Archaeological inventory of county Waterford. Dublin. Stationery Office.
McManus, D. 1991 A guide to ogam. Maynooth: Monographs 4. Maynooth. An Sagart.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.