Ogham stones from Dunloe

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Ogham stones from Dunloe
Ogham stones from Dunloe
Ogham stones from Dunloe

The eight ogham stones of Dunloe ( Irish Dún Lóich ) have stood in an enclosure near the road between Beaufort and the entrance to the Gap of Dunloe ( Irish Bearna an Choimín ) near Dunloe Castle ( Irish Caisleán Dhún Lóich ) in the county since the middle of the 20th century Kerry in Ireland .

The series consists of seven Ogham stones , which were moved here from the basement of nearby Coolmagort ( Irish Cúil Má Ghort ), discovered in 1838 , the first stone comes from the destroyed church in Kilbonane ( Irish Cill Bheanáin ), which is located southwest on the R569. The inscriptions on the stones are largely well preserved.

  • Stone 1 is made of red sandstone; 2.05 m high, 0.45 m wide and 0.2 m thick
  • Stone 2 is the largest; 2.59 m high, 0.43 m wide and 0.15 m thick
  • Stone 3 is 1.22 m high, 0.28 m wide and 0.11 m thick
  • Stone 4 is made of red sandstone; 1.42 m high, 0.30 m wide and 0.18 m thick
  • Stone 5 is more severely damaged; 1.3 m high, 0.46 m wide and 0.11 m thick
  • Stone 6 is also damaged; 1.35 m high, 0.24 m wide and 0.18 m thick
  • Stone 7 is the smallest; 0.81 m high, 0.24 m wide and 0.07 m thick
  • Stone 8 1.91 m high, 0.41 m wide and 0.18 m thick

Numbering of the inscriptions in Ogham script and reading according to Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870–1950) Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum (CIIC):

Dunloe Stone 1, CIIC 241
  • Stone 1, 241: ᚁ [ᚐᚔᚇ] ᚐᚌᚅᚔᚋᚐᚊᚔᚐᚇᚇᚔᚂᚑᚅᚐ || ᚅ (ᚐ) ᚌ [ᚓ] ᚅᚔ (ᚋᚒᚉᚑᚁᚐᚔ) ᚇ [ᚐ] ᚅ [\\ ᚅᚔᚏ <«<< ᚋᚅ [ᚔ] ᚇᚐᚌᚅᚔᚓᚄᚄᚔᚉᚑᚅᚔᚇᚇᚐᚂ [|| ᚐᚋᚔᚈᚁᚐᚔᚇᚐᚌᚅᚔ
    B [AID] AGNI MAQI ADDILONA || NAGUNI MUCO BAIDANI \\ NIR <«<<] M (N) [ID] AGNIESSICONIDDAL [|| AMIT BAIDAGNI
  • Stone 2, 202: ᚅᚔ (ᚑ) ᚇᚉᚃᚏ (ᚓ) ᚉᚉᚋᚐᚊᚒ [|| ] (ᚌ) ᚅ [NI (O) TTVR (E) CCMAQ [I || ] (G) N [
  • Stone 3, 200: ᚋᚐᚊᚔᚈᚈᚐᚂᚋᚐᚊᚔᚃᚑᚏᚌᚑᚄᚋᚐᚊᚔᚋᚒ / ᚉ) ᚑᚔᚈᚑᚑᚉᚐᚉ MAQITTAL MAQI VORGOS MAQI MU (C) OI TOICAC
  • Stone 4, 198: ᚋᚐᚊᚔᚏᚔᚈᚓᚐᚄᚋᚐᚊᚔᚋᚐᚊᚔᚇᚇᚒᚋᚔᚂᚓᚐᚄ || ᚋᚒᚉᚑᚔᚈᚑᚔᚉᚐᚉᚔ MAQI-RITEAS MAQI MAQI-DDUMILEAS MUCOI TOICACI
  • Stone 5, 197: ᚇᚓᚌᚑ⌐ᚄᚋᚐᚊᚔᚋᚑᚉᚑᚔᚈᚑᚔᚉᚐᚕᚔ DEGOS MAQI MOCOI TOICAKI
  • Stone 6, 199: ᚉᚒᚅᚐᚉᚓᚅᚐ CUNACENA
  • Stone 7, 201 largely illegible
  • Stone 8, 203: ᚋᚐᚊᚔᚇᚓᚉᚓᚇᚐᚋᚐᚇ [MAQIDECEDA MA [Q

literature

  • Charles Thomas: And Shall These Mute Stones Speak? University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1994, ISBN 0-7083-1160-1 .
  • Sabine Ziegler: The language of the old Irish Ogam inscriptions. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-26225-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thesaurus of Indo-European Text and Language Materials: CIIC 241
  2. ^ Ibid: CIIC 202
  3. ↑ ibid: CIIC 200
  4. ↑ ibid: CIIC 198
  5. ↑ ibid: CIIC 197
  6. ^ Ibid: CIIC 199
  7. ↑ ibid: CIIC 201
  8. ^ Ibid: CIIC 203

Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 34.9 ″  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 1.2 ″  W.