Ballywiheen

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Ballywiheen
Bhaile Uí Bhaoithín [1] · Raingiléis
Ruined church and burial ground at Ballywiheen - geograph.org.uk - 220017.jpg
Stone church
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Location within Ireland
Monastery information
Established6th century AD
Diocese Ardfert and Aghadoe
Architecture
Statusruined
Style Celtic
Site
LocationBallywiheen, Ballyferriter, County Kerry
Coordinates 52°09′32″N10°24′25″W / 52.158792°N 10.40702°W / 52.158792; -10.40702
Visible remainschurch
Public accessyes
Official nameBallywiheen Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Site; Cathair na gCat Cashel & Ogham Stone [2]
Reference no.221.2425

Ballywiheen is a medieval Christian site and National Monument located on the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland. [3] [4] [5] [6]

Contents

Location

Ballywiheen is located 800 m (half a mile) south of Ballyferriter, on the south side of Croaghmarhin mountain.

History

There was an early Christian settlement here, also called Raingiléis. [7] [8]

The Ogham stone was erected as a grave marker c. AD 500–550. In the 1880s it was broken open in search of gold. [9]

Excavations in 1998 turned up a stone lamp and flint scraper. [10]

Description

The cross slab (foreground) and ruined oratory. Ancient Christian site (Lathair Luathre Chriostai) - geograph.org.uk - 219843.jpg
The cross slab (foreground) and ruined oratory.
View of the church and burial ground. Ruined church and burial ground at Ballywiheen - geograph.org.uk - 220018.jpg
View of the church and burial ground.

Ballywiheen is surrounded by an enclosure 68 m (223 ft) in diameter. In the eastern part are the remains of an early drystone oratory. To the west are two mounds — these mark the location of two leachtaí (stone altars).

There is also a cross slab (decorated with Maltese cross), [11] grave mounds (suggestive of a calluragh burial ground).

There is also a stone cross 123 cm (four feet) in height. [12]

Cathair na gCat

The name Cathair na gCat means "the cat's stone fort" (the "cat" referred to is possibly the "tree cat", i.e. the pine marten.) This is a stone fort (cashel) located immediately south of Ballywiheen Christian site. It contains two stone huts and a possible souterrain.

The Ogham stone (dated to the early 6th century AD) [13] reads TOGITTACC MAQI SAGARET[TOS], "of Toicthech son of Sáraid." [14] [15] [16]

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References

  1. ↑ "Bhaile Uí Bhaoithín/Ballywiheen". Logainm.ie.
  2. ↑ "National Monuments in State Care: Ownership & Guardianship" (PDF). Ireland: National Monuments Service. 4 March 2009. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Ireland, Royal Society of Antiquaries of (21 April 1898). Journal – via Internet Archive. Ballywiheen.
  4. ↑ "The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland". The Society. 21 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (21 April 2018). "Studies in Irish Epigraphy: The Ogham inscriptions of the counties of Kerry (not included in part I), Limerick, Cavan, and King's". D. Nutt – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ King, Jeremiah (21 April 1986). County Kerry past and present: a handbook to the local and family history of the county. Mercier Press. ISBN   9780853427988 – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ GoKerry.ie. "An Raingiléis - Monastic site in Baile Bhoithín - Go Kerry". www.gokerry.ie.
  8. ↑ Macalister, R. A. S. (21 April 1898). "Ballywiheen Church, Ballyneanig, Co. Kerry". The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 8 (1): 15–20. JSTOR   25508468.
  9. ↑ "Ogham in 3D - Ballywiheen / 172. Ballywiheen". ogham.celt.dias.ie.
  10. ↑ "3443 « Excavations". Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  11. ↑ "Ballyviheen". www.corcadhuibhne3d.ie. Archived from the original on 26 December 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  12. ↑ "Ballywiheen, County Kerry". www.earlychristianireland.net.
  13. ↑ "CISP - Site: Ballywiheen". www.ucl.ac.uk.
  14. ↑ Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (21 April 2018). Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Four Courts Press. ISBN   9781851822423 – via Google Books.
  15. ↑ Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (21 April 1897). "Studies in Irish Epigraphy: Ogham inscriptions of the barony of Corkaguiney, and the counties of Mayo, Wicklow, and Kildare". D. Nutt – via Google Books.
  16. ↑ "Ogham in 3D - Ballywiheen / 172. Ballywiheen". ogham.celt.dias.ie.
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