Ballycrovane Ogham Stone

by W Chris Fooshee

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Ballycrovane Ogham Stone

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W Chris Fooshee

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Ballycrovane Ogham Stone, said to be the tallest such stone in Ireland and probably in Europe, stands at 17 feet (5.3 metres) and is said to extend several feet below ground, but it is only a very slender pillar-slab and tapers slowly to the top. It has an Ogham inscription carved on its edge, however the stone predates the inscription by over two-thousand years – back to the Bronze-Age, at least. The ancient standing stone is located in a field on the top of the hill that overlooks the harbor at Kenmare Bay on the Beara Peninsula - on the Ring of Beara.
Ogham was the ancient language of the Celts who inhabited the fringes of western Britain in pre-Roman times, but it was still being used by the ancient Britons up until the 5th-7th centuries AD.

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March 15th, 2018

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