What is recorded here

Fortwilliam townland, Co Kerry: a ringfort, a hidden passage, and a stone that emerged around 1843 with the name Veddloiggos son of Seddoin cut into it. The stone left Kerry and entered the Library at Trinity College, Dublin, where it stands beside another ogham stone in the Book of Kells exhibition. What was written for one man has become a marker for an entire culture, still speaking through marks so old they predate most of Europe's memory.

This ogham stone was discovered in a Man-made underground passage in a ringfort in Fortwilliam townland, Co Kerry (see KE021-138----) c. 1843 (Macalister 1945, 134, no. 137). It is now one of two ogham stones on display as part of the 'Book of Kells' exhibition in the Library, Trinity College, Dublin. Macalister (ibid.) read the inscription as: ANM VEDLLOIGGOI MACI SEDDOINI. (Toal 1995, 48, No. 29) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 1 November 2016

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