Castletimon stones
The stones of Castletimon (an Ogham stone and a menhir ) are / are about 250 meters apart in the townland of Castletimon ( Irish Cáisleán tSíomoin ) at Brittas Bay in County Wicklow in Ireland . The stones are part of the Castletimon Heritage Trail.
Ogham stone
The Ogham stone, also known locally as Giants Stone, lies in a niche on the roadside. The stone measures 1.5 by 0.48 meters and is 0.25 meters thick. The stone, dated between 350 and 550 AD, was discovered in 1854 and identified as Ogham by JC Tuomey. Ferguson states that the stone may have served as a carved headstone. The Ogham inscription reads:
"NETACARI NETA CAGI" - (ᚅᚓ) ᚈᚐᚉᚐᚏᚔᚅ (ᚓ) ᚈᚐᚉᚐ (ᚋ) ᚔ
Menhir
The approximately two meter high menhir made of conglomerate was only discovered in 2013 near Castletimon house. The longitudinal axis of the 0.6 meter wide stone is oriented northeast-southwest. The information sign says that the locals believed that there was originally a pair of stones (male and female), the second stone is said to be in a ditch nearby. It is said that cattle were brought between the pair of stones to make them fertile. There are similar traditions with other stone pairs in Ireland.
Brittas' Tomb portal is south of the Potter's River .
literature
- RAS Macalister: Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum. Vol. I. Stationery Office, Dublin 1945, pp. 9/10.
- Damien McManus : A Guide to Ogam. To Sagart, Maynooth 1991, ISBN 1-870684-17-6 , p. 79 and passim.
- JN Brennan: A Guide to megalithic Ireland . Harper Collins 1994, ISBN 1-85538-270-9 p. 174
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
- Sabine Ziegler : The language of the old Irish Ogam inscriptions. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-26225-6 , p. 294.
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