Oghamstone from Breastagh

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Oghamstone from Breastagh

The cuboid Oghamstein of Breastagh ( Irish Bréisteach ) is 3.66 m high, 0.76 m wide and 0.6 m thick. It is believed that it is a Bronze Age menhir , which, according to Sabine Ziegler , was provided with an Ogham inscription between 550 and 900 AD . It stands in a field 4.2 km northwest of Killala in County Mayo , Ireland .

The stone is one of the largest and therefore most famous Ogham stones in Ireland. He was discovered lying on the ground by a tourist in 1874 and erected by the Irish poet and antiquarian Samuel Ferguson (1810-1886).

The inscription carved along two of its edges reads: "Leiggo - o Sadiulenges Q - adsa Maq Corrbri - Maq Ammlloratta".

Translated by Sabine Ziegler, this means "Legescad, son of Corrbrias, son of Ambllogitt". It is believed to refer to a grandson of Amalgaid mac Fiachrae (d. 440 AD), King of Connacht of the Ui Fiachrach clan, who named the barony of Tirawley (Tír Amhlaidh).

Nearby are the Breastagh Wedge Tomb and Corrower's Ogham Stone .

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.
  • Sabine Ziegler: The Language of the Old Irish Ogam Inscriptions , Historical Linguistic Research, Supplement 36, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994
  • Peter Harbison : Guide to the Naional Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992 ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 p. 169

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Coordinates: 54 ° 14 ′ 47.8 "  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 13.6"  W.