What is recorded here

Standing stone in Oghambaun is a standing stone in Oghambaun, County Sligo, Ireland. Local information claims an upright pillar stone stood in the pasture within living memory, though no visible remains appear now. Some people connect the site to an ogham stone and the townland name, but Joyce translates Ogham in place names as a crooked yew-tree. The stone stood about 70 metres northwest of a rath.

In pasture, c. 70m NW of a rath (SL038-037----). According to local information, an upright pillar stone stood here within living memory. There are now no visible remains of this stone. Local information also relates that this was an ogham stone from which the townland name was derived though Joyce ([1913], vol. 3, 527) translates Ogham in a place-name context as ' Eo-cham, crooked yew-tree'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

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