Field Visit

Date 1966

Event ID 695592

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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NR64NW 2 6426 4817

(NR 6427 4818) Standing Stone (NR).

OS 6" map, (1924)

A four-sided granite pillar 1.7m high bearing an Ogam inscription on its NW edge; the sides of the pillar measure 0.25m to 0.31m at the base and 0.20m to 0.23m at the top. What appears to have been the same stone was described by Martin (1934) in the late 17th century as being about 3m high, and although his estimate is probably exaggerated it is known that a piece of the top was broken off when the stone was knocked down about 1845. Some twenty years later if fell again and on this occasion it was not re-erected precisely on the original site, but close to it (Rhys 1901).

The Ogam inscription is defaced by a series of holes on the base-line, but Professor K H Jackson suggests, very tentatively, that it may have read 'the son of Coiceile' and says it is probably not older than the 7th century.

J Rhys 1901; M Martin 1934; RCAHMS 1971, visited 1966.