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Ritual site - holy/saint's stone

St. Vogue'S, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ritual site - holy/saint's stone, St. Vogue'S, County Wexford, 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
St. Vogue'S
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.17437, -6.36086
SMR number
WX053-104----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the shore above the high tide mark where it is supported on a few stones. Stokes (1893) equated the local saint’s name 'Vauk' with the French saint Vogue, claiming Vogue for Ireland, but Dalton (1921, 19-20) debunks the connection and through the linguistics of what he calls the Flemish language of the Anglo-Norman settlers identifies Vauk as St. Féichín of Fore, Co. Westmeath (WM004-035003-). According to Stokes St. Vogue made the journey from Carnsore to Lan Veoc, south of the bay of Douarnenez, in Brittany, on a boulder, which then returned to Carnsore, although a fragment was left in France. All the references to the stone post-date Stokes (Mac Leighim 1920, 134-5).
The stone is a large boulder (dims 2.1m x 1.5m; T 0.55m) which is now upside down, but its underside has an incised T-shaped cross, which is comprised of what are probably natural channels (Wth c. 3cm; D c. 3-4cm).
Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 27 March, 2014

References

Dalton, J. 1921 Saint Vauk of Carne. The Past, vol. 2, 1-37.

Mac Leighim 1920 A survey of the ancient things in Lady's Island district. The Past, Vol. 1, 133-40.

Stokes, M. 1893 St. Beoc of Wexford, and Lan Veoc in Brittany. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 23, 380-5.

Nearby in the register

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

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