Ballintaggart ogham stones

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Enclosure with Ogham stones from Ballintaggart

The Ogham stones of Ballintaggart ( Irish Baile an tSagairt - the priestly village ) are south of Dingle in County Kerry in Ireland . The low hill on which the roughly circular enclosure is located is above the Dingle harbor entrance. The ogham stones now lie randomly on the ground, roughly in a circle.

CIIC 156 - Oghamstein by Ballintaggart II, around 450 AD
Ogham writing on one of the stones (detail)

Old maps show a church within the enclosure, but nothing is known about its history. The square was used as a cillin (children's cemetery) until the 1930s . The nine stones, rounded in the shape of a cigar by the surf, are made of sandstone , come from different places in the vicinity and are uniformly shaped. In addition to the inscription, one of the stones is carved in the rock showing four adoring figures arranged in a cross , others bear signs of the cross. Parts of the Ogamin script are translatable:

  • Stone with inscription CIIC 156: ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚔᚐᚏᚔ (ᚕ) [ᚑᚔ] ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚋᚒᚉᚉᚑᚔᚇᚑᚃᚃᚔᚅᚔᚐᚄ MAQQI-IARI KOỊ MA / QQI MU / CCOI DOVVINIAS (From Mac-Iair here, son of the tribe of Duibne)
  • Stone with the inscription CIIC 160: ᚈᚏᚔᚐ ᚋᚐᚊᚐ ᚋᚐᚔᚂᚐᚌᚅᚔ || ᚉᚒᚏᚉᚔᚈᚈᚔ
    TRIA MAQA MAILAGNI || CURCITTI (three sons of Mailagnos [New Irish Maoilán ] the     red-colored )
  • Stone with the inscription CIIC 161: ᚔᚅᚔᚄᚄᚔᚑᚅᚐᚄ INISSIONAS (des Inissiu?)
  • Stone with the inscription CIIC 162: ᚉᚒᚅᚐᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚐᚃᚔᚉᚑᚏᚁᚁᚔ
    CUNUMAQQI AVI CORBBI (of Cunumaqqos [ Conmac ], the grandson of Corbbos)
  • Stone with inscription CIIC 163: ᚅᚓᚈᚈᚐᚂ: ᚋᚐᚐᚐᚐᚐᚅᚐᚉᚉᚐᚕᚑᚔ ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔᚋᚒᚉᚑᚔᚇᚑᚃ (ᚔᚅ [ᚔᚐ] ᚄ)
    NETTA LAMINACCA // koi // MAQQI MUCOI DOV (IN [IA] S) (the nephew of Laminacca, the son of the people of Dovinas)
    Dovinas, their Name appears several times, was one of the goddesses of the Corcu Duibne tribe.

In addition to individual specimens, there are other groups of Ogham stones Coláiste Íde and Chute Hall on the peninsula .

The current location of the stones is on a fenced pasture, in a circular area delimited by a dry stone wall. A notice was placed in it.

literature

  • Peter Harbison : Guide to the Naional Monuments in the Republic of Ireland Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1992 ISBN 0-7171-1956-4 pp. 108-109
  • RAS Macalister: Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum . Vol 1. Black Rock: Four Courts Press. 1996 ISBN 1-85182-242-9
  • Damian McManus: A guide to Ogham . (Maynooth Monograph; 4) Maynooth: To Sagart. 1991, ISBN 1-870684-17-6 .

Web links

Commons : Ballintaggart Ogham Stones  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ McManus, Daminan: A Guide to Ogam, Maynooth Monographs 4, Maynooth 1991, p. 97
  2. ↑ http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/database/ogam/ogquery.asp?ciic1=160 Thesaurus for Indo-European text and language materials, Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum (CIIC) 160
  3. ↑ past participle curcitti, old Irish cuircthe, to corcaid "to redden, to color red", according to: Sabine Ziegler: The language of the old Irish Ogam inscriptions. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-26225-6 .
  4. ↑ http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/database/ogam/ogquery.asp?ciic1=161 ibid, Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum (CIIC) 161
  5. ↑ http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/database/ogam/ogquery.asp?ciic1=162 ibid, Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum (CIIC) 162
  6. ↑ http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/database/ogam/ogquery.asp?ciic1=163 ibid, Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum (CIIC) 163

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 40 "  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 35.5"  W.