CIIC 265. Ardmore III, Co. Waterford
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Site Type
Ecclesiastical
Description
Site
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 1 other ogham stone (CIIC 263) still on site inside cathedral walls and 1 other now in the National Museum of Ireland (CIIC 264).
Monument
This ogham stone has a small incised cross 'upon the sloping top of the stone, on the side opposite to the inscription'. Greenstone, 1.33m x 0.33m x 0.23m (converted from Macalister 1945, 260).
Text
'The Ogham is chiselled in small blunt scores, and in good condition', up (Macalister 1945, 260).
Transliteration
Translation
Commentary
Example of a Latin name, Amatus 'beloved', in an Irish ogham inscription (McManus 1991, 113). AMADU is also a possible example of an o-stem dative singular used here instead of the genitive.
Locations
Found
In the graveyard at Ardmore on a low wall beside a grave (Macalister 1945, 260) at Ardmore early ecclesiastical site, townland of Ardocheasty and barony of Decies within Drum. (GPS coordinates -7.725973, 51.948556)
Original
Unknown
Last Recorded
On site at Ardmore in a corner of the chancel of the cathedral opposite the second on site ogham stone. The present location of this stone may be accessed via the National Monuments Service Historic Environment viewer on www.archaeology.ie. (GPS coordinates -7.725908, 51.948852)
History of Recording
Discovered c.1854 by Mr. R. Chearnley (Macalister 1945, 260).
References
- Fitzgerald, E. (1856-7): Proceedings – “Jottings in archaeology”, JRSAI 4, pp 40-49, 287-91. .
- Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, pp 257, 260.
- McManus, D. (1991): A guide to ogam. Maynooth Monographs 4, pp 113, 117, 123..
- Moore, M. (1999): Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford. Dublin, pp 197.
- Rhys, J. (1903): 'The Ardmore ogam stones', JRSAI 33, pp 381-6.
- Westropp, T. J. (1903): 'Notes on the antiquities of Ardmore', JRSAI 33, pp 353-80.
Websites and Online Databases
- Gippert, J. (1997): Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text-und Sprachmateriale. Ogam-Inschriften. University of Frankfurt: titus.uni-frankfurt.de/ogam/
- CISP (Celtic Inscribed Stones Project): www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/
- MacShamhráin, A.: Monasticon Hibernicum database - Early Christian Ecclesiastical Settlement in Ireland 5th to 12th Centuries: monasticon.celt.dias.ie
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