Ireland I-KER-145

Tiobraid Bheag | Tubrid Beg (I-KER-145)

Stone ID

I-KER-145

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: Field survey notes, 1995: re-used as a lintel in a souterrain (KE021-122001-) in a ringfort (KE021-122----) in this townland. It is a narrow sandstone slab in the roof of the passage N of the main chamber.

Findspot: Tubrid Beg https://www.logainm.ie/en/24804, Co. Kerry, Ireland (ITM coordinates: 482438, 620089 )

Last recorded location(s): in situ

Support

National Monuments Service SMR ID: KE021-122003-

Object type: Slab

Material: Sandstone

Letters: 15 scores, lightly chiselled and shallow, can be made out on the south angle (6 on narrow face, 9 on the broad face) before the inscription disappears into the wall of the souterrain. Some of the scores on the broad face may cross the angle but it is not possible to see because of the position of the lintel. (Field survey notes, 1995)

References

Macalister 1945, …

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Visiting the Tiobraid Bheag | Tubrid Beg (I-KER-145) Ogham Stone

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