Ogham stone from Cloonmorris
The Oghamstone of Cloonmorris ( Irish Cluain Muirís ) is on the local cemetery wall, south of Bornacoola ( Irish Barr na Cúile ), in the extreme south of County Leitrim near the border with County Longford in Ireland .
The ogham stone was discovered in 1908 near the east gable of the church of Cloonmorris. Before 1978, it was turned upside down on a pedestal near the entrance to the cemetery. It is 0.86 m high, 0.3 m wide and 0.18 m thick and made of Silurian grit . The damaged inscription is on two corners. The legible part is "QENUVEN" and was dated by Sabine Ziegler to the time between 400 and 550 AD.
Inside the church is a very small Bullaun -Stein.
literature
- Peter Harbison : Guide to the Naional Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992 ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 p. 142
- John MacNeill, Charles MacNeill: Ogham Inscription at Cloonmorris, County Leitrim. In: The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Fifth Series. Volume 39, 1909, number 2 (= fifth row, volume 19), pp. 132-136.
- Sabine Ziegler: The language of the old Irish Ogam inscriptions (= historical linguistic research. Supplement. 36). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-26225-6 .
Web links
- Description Engl. and picture
- Description Ogham engl. Picture and sketch
- Description Bullaun engl. image
Coordinates: 53 ° 49 ′ 1 ″ N , 7 ° 52 ′ 29 ″ W.