Oghamstone from Kilgarvan

The Oghamstone of Kilgarvan ( Irish Cill na nGarbhán ) was discovered by a group of field researchers on Good Friday 2000 in the Bonniconlon cemetery in the north of the townland of Kilgarvan east of Ballina in County Mayo in Ireland . The previously unrecorded Ogham stone was found near the site where an early Christian monastery church once stood. According to the Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae by John Colgan , this goes back to a foundation in the seventh century by the Saint Féichín of Fore. As the inscription dates from the 5th or 6th century, this suggests that the place existed before Féichín.

The 1.4 m long, 0.3 m wide and up to 0.2 m thick stone is a short granite column with a wedge-shaped cross-section . The inscription of the individual name reads "DOTAGNI". Since two dashes may be missing, it could also be called “COTAGNI”. The first variant would correspond to the old Irish name Dothán in the genitive.

Web links

Entry MA040-031004- in the Archaeological Survey of Ireland
Description and picture (English)

Remarks

↑ Fionnbarr Moore names the names Gerry Bracken, Gerry Cribben, Jimmy Gilvary, Michael Murphy, Noel O'Neill and Michael O'Sullivan.
^ Aubrey Gwynn and R. Neville Hadcock: Medieval Religious Houses Ireland . Longman, London 1970, p. 390.
^ ^A ^b Fionnbarr Moore: Ogham Discovery in Mayo . In: Archeology Ireland , Vol. 15, No. 1, 2001, pp. 33-33. JSTOR 20562477 .

54.089745555556 -9.0278722222222Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '23.1 " N , 9 ° 1' 40.3" W.

[1] Fionnbarr Moore names the names Gerry Bracken, Gerry Cribben, Jimmy Gilvary, Michael Murphy, Noel O'Neill and Michael O'Sullivan.

[2] Aubrey Gwynn and R. Neville Hadcock: Medieval Religious Houses Ireland . Longman, London 1970, p. 390.

[Moore-3] A ^b Fionnbarr Moore: Ogham Discovery in Mayo . In: Archeology Ireland , Vol. 15, No. 1, 2001, pp. 33-33. JSTOR 20562477 .