Ballintaggart Ogham Stones
{{Short description|Collection of ogham stones in County Kerry, Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Use Irish English|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox historic site
| name = Ballintaggart Ogham Stones
| native_name = Clocha Oghaim Bhaile an tSagairt
| native_language = ga
| image = CIIC 156 (Richard Brash, 1879).png
|caption= CIIC 156, bearing the name of the Corcu Duibne
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| elevation = {{Convert|51|m|abbr=on}}
| locmapin = Ireland
| coordinates = {{coord|52.127810|N|10.243167|W|display=inline,title}}
| location = Ballintaggart, Dingle,
County Kerry, Ireland
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| owner = private
| type = ogham stones
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| designation2 = National Monument of Ireland
| designation2_offname = Ballintaggart
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Ballintaggart Ogham Stones is a collection of ogham stones forming a National Monument located in County Kerry, Ireland.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mvPHAAAAMAAJ&q=Ballintaggart%20ogham|title=Studies in Irish Epigraphy: The Ogham inscriptions of the counties of Kerry (not included in part I), Limerick, Cavan, and King's|first=Robert Alexander Stewart|last=Macalister|date=1 January 1902|publisher=D. Nutt|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tf61E72VCY0C&q=Ballintaggart+ogham&pg=PA462|title=An Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Bibliography (450-1087).|first=Wilfrid|last=Bonser|date=1 January 1957|publisher=University of California Press|via=Google Books}}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924029795469|quote=Ballintaggart ogham.|title=Ogham Inscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland|first=Sir Samuel|last=Ferguson|date=1 January 1887|publisher=D. Douglas|via=Internet Archive}}
Location
Ballintaggart Ogham Stones are located inside a round enclosure (diameter 30 m / 100 ft), immediately east of Dingle racecourse and southeast of the town.{{cite web|url=http://irishantiquities.bravehost.com/kerry/ballintaggart/ballintaggart.html|title=Ballintaggart Ogham Stones|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.theroseoftralee.com/ballintaggart-ogham-stones/|title=Ballintaggart Ogham Stones|date=8 September 2010 |publisher=}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5JnAAAAMAAJ&q=Ballintaggart%20ogham|title=County Kerry past and present: a handbook to the local and family history of the county|first=Jeremiah|last=King|date=1 January 1986|publisher=Mercier Press|isbn=9780853427988 |via=Google Books}}
History
The stones were carved in the 5th and 6th centuries AD and served as burial markers.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zqkMAQAAMAAJ&q=Ballintaggart|title=Peritia|date=1 January 2008|publisher=Medieval Academy of Ireland|isbn=9782503517643|via=Google Books}}
This was anciently the site of a church and old burial ground (An Cheallúnach or An Lisín).{{cite web|url=http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=27329|title=Ballintaggart Nine Stones|last=The Megalithic Portal and Megalith|publisher=}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKGfAAAAMAAJ&q=Ballintaggart%20ogham|title=The Intelligent Traveller's Guide to Historic Ireland|first=Philip Axtell|last=Crowl|date=1 January 1990|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=9780809240623|via=Google}}{{cite web|url=http://www.megalithicmonumentsofireland.com/COUNTIES/WATERFORD/Dromlohan_OghamStones.html|title=Drumlohan Ogham Stones/Megalithic Monuments of Ireland|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ancientireland.org/ballintaggart/index.htm|title=Ballintaggart Ogham Stones|first=Frank|last=Schorr|publisher=}}
Description
The ogham stones are rounded, made of water-rolled sandstone. Eight of them form a circle, each one lying down pointing outwards. The ninth lies at the centre. Several have been inscribed with crosses.
- CIIC 155: AKEVRITTI (presumably a personal name)
- CIIC 156: MAQQI-IARI KOỊ MA/QQI MU/CCOI DOVVINIAS (Here is Mac-Iair, son of the Corcu Duibne)
- CIIC 157: DOVETI MAQQI/ CATTI/NI (of Duibthe, son of Caitne). The language used here is primitive, lacking vowel affection, placing it around the time of Saint Patrick
- CIIC 158: SUVALLOS MAQ/Q̣Ị DU/COVAROS (of Suvallos son of Ducovaros)
- CIIC 159: ṂẠQI-DECC[E]DẠ/ ṂẠQ̣Ị/ GLASICONAS (of son of Deichet, son of Glasiconas). The personal name Glasiconas means "grey wolf."
- CIIC 160: TRIA MAQA MAILAGNI (of the three sons of Maílagnas) / CURCITTI (of Cuircthe). This stone bears a strange cross: with arms of equal length, two with "E" shapes on the end, one with a "Y" and one with a +{{cite web|url=http://www.megalithicmonumentsofireland.com/COUNTIES/KERRY/Ballintaggart_OghamStones.html|title=Ballintaggart Ogham Stones/Megalithic Monuments of Ireland|publisher=}}
- CIIC 161: INISSIO/NAS (a personal name); like CIIC 157 it dates to the 5th century AD
- CIIC 162: CUṆẠMAQQ̣I/ AVI CỌRBBI (of Conmac, grandson of Corb)
- CIIC 163: N[E]TTA-LAMINACCA KO/I ṂA/QQI MỤCOI DOṾ[I]Ṇ[IA]Ṣ (here is Laminacca's champion, son of the Corcu Duibne){{cite web|url=https://ogham.celt.dias.ie/stone.php?lang=en&site=Ballintaggart&stoneinfo=inscription&stone=155._Ballintaggart_I|title=Ogham in 3D - Ballintaggart / 155. Ballintaggart I|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dKgOAQAAMAAJ&q=Ballintaggart%20ogham|title=Studies in Irish Epigraphy: Ogham inscriptions of the counties of Cork, Tipperary, and Waterford|first=Robert Alexander Stewart|last=Macalister|date=1 January 1907|publisher=D. Nutt|via=Google Books}}