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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: An Dún Mór Ogham stone Alternative Name: Dunmore ogham stoneCountry: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 2.424 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Kerry Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Village: Dunquin
Latitude: 52.110286N Longitude: 10.473174W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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The ogham stone is officially recorded as monument number KE052-059002-
An Dún Mór (Dunmore) is a large headland, rising 328 feet/100m OD, and projects W into the Blasket Sound at the extreme W tip of the Dingle Peninsula.
The final A is not visible either, but is included in most earlier accounts. Westropp (1910, 291) suggests that Dunmore may have been a place of ritual, a sanctuary of the goddess Duibhne.
The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 268.
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=178
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/2004).
I may be wrong here but I'm going to suggest that this is the most westerly ogham stone still standing in Europe. Records show there was an ogham stone on nearby Innishvickillane island a few kms to the south west of this site however that stone has been moved and is now sited on display at Trinity College, Dublin as part of The Book of Kells Exhibition. As far as I can ascertain there is currently no ogham further west than the An Dún Mór stone, although if a reader knows of one I'll happily be corrected on this.
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