Kilcoolaght East ogham stones

National Monument No. 329. One of 7, or possibly 8, ogham stones at Kilcoolaght Burial Ground/Cill Chuallachta (KE065-003001-), inside iron railings erected in the 1940s. Brash also recorded a tradition that a church (KE065-003003-) formerly stood on a rectangular area of untilled ground ‘a few yards from the cilleen'. No trace of this church is now apparent.'

This stone stands .76m high and measures .24m x .2m at base. Inscribed on all four angles, it features two inscriptions which probably continued across its now missing upper portion. The characters of the second inscription are more finely cut than those of the first, but both are clearly decipherable. Macalister (1945, 202, no. 206) read them as: ANM VIRR[. . .]ANNI TIGIRN and CEDATTOQA MAQI VEDELMET[T]. The initial AN of ANM, some of the R scores and -N of TIGIRN are below current ground level (2015 visit). (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, no. 950)

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=206