Ireland I-KER-136

Oileán an Teampaill | Church Island (I-KER-136)

Inscription

BECCDINN MACI RIVVOESS RITTECC

Ogham reads along the stemline — usually bottom to top on standing stones. How to read Ogham →

Stone ID
I-KER-136
Country
Ireland
This record is drawn from the OG(H)AM corpus — the authoritative scholarly database of Ogham inscriptions, compiled by a team of epigraphers, archaeologists, and linguists. Transcription conventions and dating follow established epigraphic standards.

Provenance

Discovery: by 1954 O’Kelly (iv in McManus, pp 69-70) ‘in a secondary position in the SW quadrant of the island’ (O’Kelly and Kavanagh 1945, 101-10).

Findspot: Church Island (Oileán an Teampaill - wrong coords on logainm!), Co. Kerry, Ireland (ITM coordinates: 443008 , 578627 )

Current repository: Ireland Cork Public Museum (inv. no. 1777.1023 (G1094))

Last recorded location(s): Cork Public Museum (51.896085, -8.494222)

Support

National Monuments Service SMR ID: KE079-032004-

Object type: Cross slab

Dimensions:

Inscription

Text field: Ogham secondary unusual? compass-drawn, incised Maltese (type) outline ringed cross. The cross is composed of a cetnral circle flanked by four smaller circles which are joined to the enclosing circle by four petals with truncated tips. Pendant from the circle is a broad shaft. The excavator suggested a date of between 650 and 750 AD for the design

Letters: Pocked with confusion regarding orientation of strokes on the second angle. Use of X-forfid with vocalic value in addition to vowel notches!

Edition

Transcription: BECCDINN MACI RIVVOESS (for RITTECC?)

References

  • Macalister 1945, …
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Visiting the Oileán an Teampaill | Church Island (I-KER-136) Ogham Stone

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