Oghamstone by Corrower

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The Oghamstone of Corrower (also Currower; Irish Corr Odhar ) is on the Padraic Walshe's Farm in Currower in the Parish Attymass, southeast of Ballina in County Mayo in Ireland .

The unusually high Oghamstein is 2.82 meters high, 1.04 meters wide and 0.25 meters thick. It is believed that the stone was a Bronze Age menhir ( English Standing Stone ), which was provided with an inscription in the first half of the 6th century. According to Macalister, the inscription reads ᚛ᚋᚐᚊ ᚉᚓᚏᚐᚅᚔ ᚐᚃᚔ ᚐᚈᚆᚓᚉᚓᚈᚐᚔᚋᚔᚅ᚜, transcribed as MAQ CERAN [I] AVI ATHECETAIMIN, meaning “son of Ciarán, descendant of Uí Riaghan”. The lower part at the beginning of the inscription was removed; usually the name of the owner of the stone was found here. The inscription was dated by S. Ziegler to around 500–550 AD.

Nearby is the Carrowcrom Wedge Tomb .

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. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-26225-6 , p. 294.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CORRO / 1. In: Celtic Inscribed Stones Project. University College London , accessed December 12, 2017 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 20.3 "  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 41.7"  W.