| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:144 |
| Site: | ARDNE |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1945 O'Sullivan, P. |
| History: | |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945, 139: `sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.24 x 0.18 x 0.1 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | Museum of University College, Macalister/1945, 139; `...it is now in the Museum of University College, Cork'. |
| Form: | Indeterminate |
| Condition: | frgmntry , poor Macalister/1945, 139--140: `...it has evidently been broken for building purposes from the top of a larger stone. The beginning of the lettering has been dressed away by the masons'. Cuppage et al/1986, 248: `...there was no justification for Macalister's claim that the fragment came from the `the top of a larger stone'. Both ends were fractured`. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | --][D!]ITA[V!][-- Expansion: DITAV Macalister/1945 139--140 reading only Petrie/1878 263 reading only |
| O'Kelly, M.J. (1986): | --]VITAL[-- Expansion: --]VITAL[-- Cuppage/etal/1986 248 reading only |
| Orientation: | Indeterminate |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; mixed ; undecorated |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 139--140: `The dressing has removed the dexter half of D1 (this might have been any other letter of the H-group up to Q); at the other end the fracture has taken off the proximal ends of the V, which might, in like manner, have been an S or an N. To attempt a restoration is quite hopeless. A curious feature of the fragment is a deep groove running above the I notches on the H-surface; but after careful consideration on two occasions I cannot attach any importance to it. It must be a natural cleavage-plane, which has been enlarged by weathering'. Cuppage et al/ 1986, 248: `O'Kelly (annotation in personal copy of Macalister's Corpus) remarked that the inscription could equally well be read as: TAVIL'.
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| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |