Ballingarry Ogham Stone

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The Ballingarry Ogham Stone stands northwest of Ballylanders in County Limerick , Ireland .

The ogham stone stands in a meadow next to Ballingarry House . It measures 1.47 m in height, 0.46 m in width, 0.27 m in thickness and is made of red sandstone . The Oghamin writing on the edge reads "Mailagni Maqi Gamati". Sabine Ziegler dated the stone to AD 366-433.

The landowner built a fence around the stone to protect it from the cattle.

literature

  • Henry S. Crawford : On an Ogham Stone in County Limerick. In: The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Fifth Series, Vol. 36, No. 1, (1906), pp. 47-50
  • Sabine Ziegler : The language of the old Irish Ogam inscriptions. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-26225-6 .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '6 "  N , 8 ° 22' 5.1"  W.