Ogham stone in Patrickswell

On a gentle N-facing slope, just below the crest of a flat-topped hill, in tillage. The view N, NE-E is dominated by the southern Wicklow mountains, good view SE along the Slaney river valley, limited S by rising ground and extensive to the W, with hills to the NW. This is a pink granite stone (H 1.1m; 0.4m x 0.65m) with a badly weathered inscription on the SW angle. It includes the letters MAC. The stone is possibly connected with the nearby early ecclesiastical site at Waterstown (CW004-012001). (Brindley and Kilfeather 1993, no. 515) Preservation Order number: 3/1984. See attached photographs: CW004-011----_01 W face looking E CW004-011----_02 S and W faces looking NE Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 17 October 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1984).