Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1907:139 Macalister/1945:70 |
Site: | AHLIS |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1841 Hawkes, Z. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 73: `discovered in a souterrain … by Z. Hawkes and Windele in 1841. … taken out of the cave sometime toward the end of the nineteenth century, by the proprietor, the late Mr. R. Bence Jones, and … placed on a rockery in his garden: but … afterwards acquired from him by the Royal Irish Academy. … This was the seventh roofing-slab in the cave'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 73: `Coarse grained clay-slate'. |
Dimensions: | 1.52 x 0.64 x 0.22 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in display |
Location: | National Museum, Dublin Macalister/1945, 73: `now in the Academy's Collection, housed in the National Museum.' Gippert/Web, Ogham 70: `The present stone...could not be identified when visiting the N.M. in 1988'. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | inc , some |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1907): | CUNAGUSOSMAQIMUCOIVIRA ||| GNI Expansion: CUNAGUSOS MAQI MUCOI VIRAGNI Macalister/1907 56--57 concise discussion |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | CUNAGUSOSMAQIMUCOIVIRA ||| GNI Expansion: CUNAGUSOS MAQI MUCOI VIRAGNI Macalister/1907 56--57 reading only Macalister/1945 73--74 concise discussion Ziegler/1994 257 reading only |
McManus, D. (1991): | CUNAGUSOSMAQIMUCOIVIRA ||| G[N]I Expansion: CUNAGUSOS MAQI MUCOI VIRAGNI McManus/1991 65 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up along down |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; inc |
Incision: | incised |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 73--74; `The letters are cut on a very obtuse angle, in the middle of one of the broad faces of the slab; not on an edge, except the last few letter, which run along the edge of the top, and are there not easy to decipher'. |
Legibility: | inc Macalister/1945, 74: `The inscription can be read as under with certainty, in spite of the slight difficulty of the terminal letters...The edge next to the dexter side of the inscription shews unmistakable traces of artificial flaking, alomost certainly inflicted to remove an earlier inscription'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |