Ogham stone from Gartree

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The Oghamstein of Gartree ( Irish Gort Righ ) stands at the entrance to Gartree House near Lough Neagh east of the military airfield "RAF Longford Lodge" in County Antrim in Northern Ireland and serves as the gate post of an orchard. The stone 1.08 m high, 0.38 m wide and 0.19 m thick bears an Oghamin script on the northwest side . It is one of only six Ogham stones in Northern Ireland.

It is possible that the upper left part of the stone was chipped off and signs of the inscription were lost. In the lower part, the rest of the inscription may be below the surface of the ground. The legible but incomprehensible part of the inscription reads: "AEFNOCM S". The stone is probably not in its original position and has two modern holes in the upper part to hold a gate.

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: 54 ° 37 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 6 ° 17 ′ 23.1 ″  W.