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CIIC 25. Colbinstown VII, Co. Kildare

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© Michelle Doran 2011-04-08

National Monuments Service Record Number: KD032-044007-

Site Type

Ecclesiastical

Description

Site

The site, a gravel mound known as Killeen Cormac (Cell Ingen Cormaic/Cell Fhine Cormaic?) is classified as a 'Burial Ground', but may be regarded as an important early ecclesiastical site. A recent geophysical survey of the site (Greene 2013, 26-47) shows traces of a trivallate enclosure of which the burial ground is just the nucleus of a much more extensive early Christian foundation. Seven ogham stones were originally found at this site, at least one of which was broken up and re-used in the construction of a surrounding wall in the late 19th century (Macalister 1945, 26). One of the ogham stones, currently on display in the National Museum of Ireland, is a bilingual stone (rare in Ireland) with both an ogham inscription and one in Latin (CIIC. 19 Colbinstown I).

Monument

A fragment of one of seven ogham stones. Possibly the top of a granite pillar, 0.36m x 0.37m x 0.23m (converted from Macalister 1945, 30).

Text

'end of inscription' (Macalister 1945, 30)

Transliteration

[ ... ]LA

Translation

Commentary

Locations

Found

found on the summit of the mound (Macalister and Praeger 1929, 259) at Killeen Cormac in the townland of Colbinstown and barony of Narragh and Reban East. (GPS coordinates -6.760951, 53.028323)

Original

Find location possibly original site

Last Recorded

lying loose in the SSW of the graveyard. The present location of this stone may be accessed via the National Monuments Service Historic Environment viewer on www.archaeology.ie.

Recording

Discovered during excavation of the site in 1929 (Macalister and Praeger 1929, 257).

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