Ogham Stone - Coolmagort - Ireland

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Site Type: Souterrain Souterrain: Description: Site: This souterrain (KE065-078----), marked 'Cave' on the OS maps, was discovered in 1838 by workmen building a field boundary across a slight rise in Dunloe Castle demesne, a short distance W of the River Loe. The site is located in the townland of Coolmagort and barony of Dunkerron North. Found: Along with six other ogham stones in a souterrain known as 'the cave of Dunloe' in the townland of Coolmagort and barony of Dunkerron North (GPS coordinates -9.633466, 52.060741). Original: Unknown Last Recorded: In a small modern enclosure (together with CIIC 241 Kilbonane) near the entrance to the Gap of Dunloe, close to where originally found. The present location of this stone may be accessed via the National Monuments Service public map viewer on www.archaeology.ie (GPS coordinates -9.634923, 52.06042). History of Recording: Discovered in 1838 by workmen building a field boundary. After that, it was inspected by J. Windele 'and a party of antiquaries from Cork'; Brash saw the spot in the autumn of 1869. References: Brash R. R. (1879): The Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil in the British Isles, p. 232. Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, pp 191-3. MacNeill, E. (1911): 'Early Irish population groups', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 29, p. 69, n.1.. Mahon, W. (1990): 'Glasraige, Tóecraige, and Araid: evidence from Ogam', Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium) 8, pp 11–30. McManus, D. (1991): A guide to ogam. Maynooth Monographs 4, pp 53, 65, 79, 82, 94, 107, 112, 116. O'Sullivan, A. and Sheehan, J.(1996): The Iveragh Peninsula: An Archaeological Survey of South Kerry. Cork, no. 863. Websites and Online Databases: Gippert, J. (2001): Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text-und Sprachmateriale. TITUS OGAMICA. (3rd edition) University of Frankfurt: titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/ogam/frame CISP (Celtic Inscribed Stones Project): www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/ https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/stone.php?lang=en&site=Coolmagort&stone=197._Coolmagort_I&stoneinfo=description http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/ Ogham stones are among Ireland's most remarkable national treasures. These perpendicular cut stones bear inscriptions in the uniquely Irish Ogham alphabet, using a system of notches and horizontal or diagonal lines/scores to represent the sounds of an early form of the Irish language. The stones are inscribed with the names of prominent people and sometimes tribal affiliation or geographical areas. These inscriptions constitute the earliest recorded form of Irish and, as our earliest written records dating back at least as far as the 5th century AD, are a significant resource for historians, as well as linguists and archaeologists.