Ogham 3D - CIIC 263. Ardmore I, Co. Waterford

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Ardmore I Ogham Stone, County Waterford The following text has been copied from the Ogam Inscriptions website: This ogham stone was first noted by Mr. Windele in 1855 as having been discovered at St Declan's Oratory at Ardmore, County of Waterford. The inscription reads: MUCOI NETA-SEGAMONAS "descendant of Nad-Segamon" One theory is that this may be the Gaulish name Segomo and that this inscription commemorates a prehistoric king of Cashel named Nia Segamon who is listed in historical sources as a king of Munster and Ireland. The fact that MUCOI NETA-SEGAMONAS "descendant of Nad-Segamon" is also found on an ogham stone at nearby Island (CIIC. 300) and possibly also Knockboy (CIIC. 292) may suggest that this was a dynasty which controlled the area of west Waterford in the 5th century. Macalister's interpretation of this inscription as bearing the equivalent of vici episcopus (BIGA ISGOB) is "extremely doubtful". The present location of this stone may be accessed via the National Monuments Service public map viewer on www.archaeology.ie. References: * Bhreathnach E. (2014): Ireland in the Medieval World, AD400-1000: Landscape, kingship and religion. Dublin. * Fitzgerald, E. (1855): 'On St. Declan's Oratory at Ardmore, County of Waterford, and the Old Irish Inscription built into its East End', JRSAI 3, pp 226, 230-1. * Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, pp 257-60. * McCone, K. (1996): Towards a Relative Chronology of Ancient and Medieval Celtic Sound Changes (Maynooth: Department of Old and Middle Irish). * McManus, D. (1991): A guide to ogam. Maynooth Monographs 4, pp 61, 103, 108, 109-10, 112, 116, 117, 125. * Moore, M. (1999): Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford. Dublin, p 197. * Rhys, J. (1903): 'The Ardmore ogam stones', JRSAI 33, pp 381-6. * Stifter, D. (2011): 'review of: Graham R. Isaac, Studies in Celtic Sound Changes and their Chronology, Innsbruck: 2007' in Journal of Celtic Linguistics 14, p 24 in full online version only at http://www.univie.ac.at/lexlep/wiki/Stifter_2011. * Westropp, T. J. (1903): 'Notes on the antiquities of Ardmore', JRSAI 33, pp 353-80. Websites and Online Databases: * Gippert, J. (1997): Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text-und Sprachmateriale. Ogam-Inschriften: Bilderverzeichnis (picture catalogue). (2nd edition) University of Frankfurt: titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ogam/ogbildx.htm * CISP (Celtic Inscribed Stones Project): www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/ * MacShamhráin, A.: Monasticon Hibernicum database - Early Christian Ecclesiastical Settlement in Ireland 5th to 12th Centuries: monasticon.celt.dias.ie