What is recorded here

Keel West holds a pointed stone slab, eighty centimetres long and nine centimetres thick, pulled from a Mayo field in 1958. Its broad face carries faded peck marks that resist confident reading, preserving a name or claim lost to weather rather than forgotten by choice. The stone now rests in Dublin, waiting for modern tools to sharpen what human hands blurred.

This stone was found in 1958 on the surface of a field some 300m W of the coastguard station at Keem (NMI Finds Register: 1958/126). It is described (Lucas 1960a, 33) as a 'Rectangular slab of stone brought to a point at one end. The surfaces are all considerably weather worn so that the inscription cannot be read with confidence. It appears to have been pecked on one of the broad faces of the stone rather than along an angle. Length 80.5cm; greatest width 36cm; maximum thickness 9cm.' It is now in the National Museum of Ireland (DU018-404----). This stone has been studied as part of the ‘Ogham in 3D’ project undertaken by the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. To access details go to the following website: https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=Keel_West Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 23 September 2016

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