What is recorded here

Kilcoolaght Burial Ground in County Kerry holds seven or eight ogham stones inside iron railings erected in the 1940s, preserving a place where people were set aside long before the fence gave it a modern edge. One stone stands sixty-seven centimetres high, its angles and top marked with deep scores that read RITTUVVECC MAQI VEDDONOS, though weather has blurred parts of the second and third words. A lost church may have stood nearby on untilled ground, but no trace remains to prove it. The chamber is small, crowded and old enough to make certainty sound impatient.

National Monument No. 329. One of 7, or possibly 8, ogham stones at Kilcoolaght Burial Ground/Cill Chuallachta (KE065-003001-), inside Iron railings erected in the 1940s. Brash also recorded a tradition that a church (KE065-003003-) formerly stood on a rectangular area of untilled ground ‘a few yards from the cilleen'. No trace of this church is now apparent.' Standing .67m high, this stone measures .22m x .13m at base. It is inscribed in deeply cut scores on two angles and across its top. Macalister (1945, 205, no.211) read it as: RITTUVVECC MAQI VEDDONOS (initial RI was below ground level in August 2015). The upper surface of the stone is spalled and the I of the second word and the initial two characters of the third word are no longer clear. (O'Sullivan and Sheehan 1996, no. 950) 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: http://ogham.celt.dias.ie/search.php?ciic=211 Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 8 February 2017 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 38/1935).

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