What is recorded here

Ogham stones in Ireland date from the early medieval period, when Christian and pagan traditions overlapped. People carved names, landmarks and memories into stone because writing was rare and loss was certain. In Baile Mór Thiar, a buried fragment survived beneath an ordinary ground. It records that identity, memory and continuity can reappear after centuries of forgetting.

Discovered in 2013 in the course of excavating a pit beside a mobile home. The stone, 0.25m long, is a sandstone fragment and contains the remnants of an ogham inscription in the scholastic scribal tradition whereby the arris or stemline is drawn on the stone rather than on the edge with the letters written with respect to this line. In this instance only a few letters survive and they most likely read SIGA . . . The stone is currently in private possession. Compiled by: Fionnbarr Moore Date of upload: 5 July 2013

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