Oghamstone from Coumeenoole North

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Coumeenoole Stone

The Oghamstein of Coumeenoole North ( Irish Com Dhíneol Thuaidh ) stands on the headland of Dunmore Head, on the extreme western tip of the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry in Ireland .

The ogham stone was discovered lying on the ground in 1838 and erected again the following year. The approximately two meter high stone measures 0.45 m in width and is 0.3 m thick. According to RA Stewart Macalister (1870–1950), the inscription reads: "ERC MAQI MAQI-ERCIAS MU DOVINIA". Erc is a person's name.

Tradition has it that Dunmore Head was a place of worship. A north-south oriented, approximately 500 m long wall and an external ditch with a low outer wall separate the headland like a Promontory Fort .

literature

  • Damien McManus: A Guide to Ogam (= Maynooth Monographs. 4). To Sagart, Maynooth 1991, ISBN 1-870684-17-6 .
  • 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). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-26225-6 .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 36.9 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 23.6 ″  W.