Oghamstone of Aghaleague
The Oghamstein of Aghaleague is in the immediate vicinity of the road R314, opposite the Heathfield National School , in the townland of Aghaleague ( Irish Achadh Liag - "field of the stone pillar") southeast of Ballycastle in County Mayo in Ireland .
It is a 2.03 m high, at the bottom 1.98 m wide and only 0.15 m thick Ogham stone in the form of a wedge made of local sandstone . The barely legible inscription reads:
᚛ᚋᚐᚊᚐᚉᚈᚑᚋᚐᚊᚌᚐᚏ᚜ MAQACTOMAQGAR. Son of Acto, son of Gar.
The stone was dated to 550 to 700 AD by Sabine Ziegler.
Local tradition claims that this was the stone of King Garbry ( Cairbre ), son of Amalgaid, Prince of Tirawley ( Tír Amhlaidh , "Land of Amalgaids", a region and later barony in which Aghaleague is located, named after Amalgaid mac Fiachrae, died 440 AD).
literature
- RAS Macalister: Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum. Vol. I. Stationery Office, Dublin 1945, pp. 9/10.
- Damien McManus: A Guide to Ogam. To Sagart, Maynooth 1991, ISBN 1-870684-17-6 , p. 79 and passim.
- Philip I. Powell: The Ogham Stones of Ireland. The Complete & Illustrated Index. Createspace, sl 2011, ISBN 978-1-4610-9513-2 .
- Sabine Ziegler: The Language of the Old Irish Ogam Inscriptions, Historical Linguistic Research, Supplement 36, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994
Web links
- Description and picture (English)
Coordinates: 54 ° 15 ′ 27.5 ″ N , 9 ° 19 ′ 55.6 ″ W.