What is recorded here

Kilgobnet is a village where a named ogham stone was taken from an underground rath passage, made into a door lintel, and last seen buried in a manure heap. The stone is no longer where it should be, but the story is complete: a place can take a visible thing and still return it in the shape of memory.

Portion of an ogham stone (KE065-109001-) was discovered before 1869 in a Man-made underground passage (KE065-109----) in a rath close to Kilgobnet village (Brash 1879, 238). It measured 3 foot 4 inches (1m) x 1 foot 3 inches (.38m) at top, and narrowed to 1 foot 1 inch (.32m) x 4 inches (.1m) at base. The stone was subsequently used as a door lintel, but when last recorded, in 1910, it was lying in a manure heap in the village (Macalister 1945, 207). The inscription, along two opposing angles and across the top of the stone, reads: ANNVENI TEGG[ . . . Spalling had obscured the remainder of the inscription. While the precise location of the rath from which this stone derived is unknown, it appears likely to be this example. The above description is derived from A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan (compilers), 'The Iveragh peninsula: an archaeological survey of South Kerry'. Cork University Press (1996), no. 524. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 29 July 2013

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