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Ogham stone in Kilmannin

Ogham stone

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This ogham stone (1.22m x 0.51m x 0.3m, converted from Macalister 1945, 6, no. 4) was found built into the wall of a church (MA093-045001-) and is now in the National Museum of Ireland (see DU018-355----). It is inscribed on all four angles, 2 inscriptions (2nd unintelligible), boustrophedon/up-top-down. These have been read by McManus (1991, 65) as: LUGADDON MAqi LuGUDEC and DDISI MO. . .CQU SEL. Macalister (ibid.) read DDISIMO [--]CQU[!B]EL) for the second. 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=4 Updated by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 6 January 2015

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