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Ecclesiastical
Early ecclesiastical site (Ard Mór Uí Seasta – Ardocheasty townland). Early features at this site include St Declan's oratory, cathedral ruins (Romanesque), round tower, and 2 other ogham stones (CIIC 263, CIIC 265) still on site inside cathedral walls.
0.86m x 0.30m x 0.05m (converted from Macalister 1945, 260). Both ends broken off.
'Inscription imperfect at both ends... One vowel notch precedes the N ... the distal ends of all scores on the H-side have been lost' (Macalister 1945, 260).
'?-nach son of ?'
...NACI probably contains a personal name guttural suffix -AC (o-stem), cp. 148. Ballinrannig, Co. Kerry (TENAC[I]) (McManus 1991, 108).
`...found in the nave of the cathedral, built into a low wall' (Macalister 1945, 260) at Ardmore early ecclesiastical site, townland of Ardocheasty and barony of Decies within Drum. (GPS coordinates -7.726208,51.948826
Unknown
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. The present location of this stone may be accessed via the National Monuments Service Historic Environment viewer on www.archaeology.ie. (GPS coordinates -6.254558,53.340408)
First noted in 1855 as having been discovered by Mr. Windele (Fitzgerald 1855, 230).
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