Ogham stones from Coláiste Íde
The seven ogham stones from Coláiste Íde are part of Lord Ventry's collection (two more are at Chute Hall ) and stand (5) or are (2) about 2.5 km west of Dingle in County Kerry , on the south-west side of Dingle Harbor on the road to Burnham House (the former estate of Lord Ventry, which is now the Coláiste Íde girls' boarding school ) in Ireland .
Four of the Oghamstones come from Ballinrannig ( Irish Baile an Reannaigh ) or from the local cemetery Cill Mhic an Oiléain , one comes from Burnham East and one from Ballineesteenig ( Baile an Ístínigh ). The origin of the seventh stone is unknown. Ballinrannig also made the small cross stone, which is set up with a porthole behind the Ogham stones.
The stones from Ballinrannig
The left four of the five standing stones come from Ballinrannig, which is on the south bank of Smerwick Harbor near a small headland. In 1782, a storm exposed seven ogham stones, the fragment of another stone, a cross stone and some graves, as well as the ruins of several houses. A contemporary sketch shows the stones in a semicircular arrangement on a hill. Only one stone remained near the original location.
The 0.99 m high, 0.33 m wide and 0.22 m thick stone has the “No. Balig 1/1 ". The inscription is very clear, runs along the sides and reads: DUBONIRRAS MAQQI TENAC (). The last two characters are damaged. One could be a C, the other is illegible.
The 1.18 m high, 0.4 m wide and 0.22 m thick stone has the “No. Balig 2/1 ". The inscription is clear and reads: MAQQI CUNITTI (M) A (Q) QI QETTI (A)
The 1.16 m high, 0.34 m wide and 0.14 m thick stone has the “No. Balig 3/1 ". The inscription reads: () NAVICAS MAQI MUCO (I) () S The last word is only represented by one character.
The 0.91 m high, 0.26 m wide and 0.25 m thick stone bears the inscription BROINIONAS and the “No. Balig 4/1 ".
The other stones from Coláiste Íde
Ballineesteenig made the 1.98 m long and 32 cm thick water-rounded stone “No. Balee ". The inscription reads: MOINEA MAQI OLACON. The stone, discovered in 1790, on which a small Latin cross is carved, was later smashed.
Where the 1.05 m long and about 36.5 cm thick other water-rounded stone with the “No. Brham / 1/1 "is exactly unknown (probably Burnham East). The inscription reads: MAQQI ERCCIA MAQQI MUCOI DOVINIA.
There is no information about the smallest, the fifth of the standing ogham stones.
The stone left in Ballinrannig
The 1.76 m high, 0.63 m wide and 0.18 m thick Oghamstein is the only one of the former seven-part find that remained at Smerwick Harbor. It was raised again on the knoll south of the bay. The inscription reads: "CUNAMAQQI CORBBI MAQQI MUCCOI DOVVINIAS".
See also
literature
- Damien McManus: A Guide to Ogam. To Sagart, Maynooth 1991, ISBN 1-870684-17-6 .
- Sabine Ziegler: The language of the old Irish Ogam inscriptions. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-26225-6 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 36.5 ″ N , 10 ° 18 ′ 24.5 ″ W.