M0006000: Stone with Ogham inscription, County Kerry, Ireland

Date:
12 January 1939
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/50/1
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Credit

M0006000: Stone with Ogham inscription, County Kerry, Ireland. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Oglam stone. Co. Kerry.

Description

Photograph of a stone monument carved with an Ogham inscription in Kerry, Ireland. People would walk around the stone sun wise and repeat prayers to cure falling sickness and epilepsy.

Publication/Creation

12 January 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 107 x 165 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Terms of use

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