Maumanorig or Kilcolman is the site of the remains of a medieval Christian monastery and National Monument located on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland.
Location
Maumanorig is located north of Ventry on a site of .
The placename is Irish for "hill-top of the yellow stones" or "mountain pass of the Hoares." It may have been a starting-point for pilgrims to Skellig Michael or Mount Brandon.
Description Maumanorig is a circular enclosure within which are a church site, two hut-sites and several gravemarkers.
There is a cross pattee-inscribed ogham stone, tall and long. The west face bears the Ogham inscription and two crosses. The Ogham (CIIC 193) reads ᚛ᚐᚅᚋ ᚉᚑᚂᚋᚐᚅ ᚐᚔᚂᚔᚈᚆᚔᚏ᚜ ANM COL(OLṬḤ)ṂẠṆ ẠḶỊṬḤIR meaning "[written in] the name of Colmán, the pilgrim."
It may commemorate Colmán Oilither, grandson of Díarmait mac Fergosa Cerrbéoil, who died c. AD 565–572.
Also there is a small cross-inscribed stone, a holed stone and three bullaun stones.
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