| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1897:28 Macalister/1945:147 |
| Site: | BALEE |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1790 Pelham, H. |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 142: `Found in 1790 by Henry Pelham `in the middle of the village' {which he calls `Ballyfeeny'). Sometime before 1804 it was broken into two pieces, and part of the back of the stone was flaked away, as the result of kindling a fire against it. When Brash saw it, it was still on or near its original site: but it was afterwards removed to Burnham, then the seat of Lord Ventry, where it remains'. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945, 143: `sandstone pulvinar'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.93 x 0.33 x 0.36 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | on ground |
| Location: | other Macalister/1945, 142: `When Brash saw it, it was still on or near its original site: but it was afterwards removed to Burnham, then the seat of Lord Ventry, where it remains'. |
| Form: | plain Cuppage/etal/1986, 250: `...a long rounded boulder'. |
| Condition: | incomplete , some Macalister/1945, 142--143: `Some time before 1804 it was broken into two pieces, and part of the stone was flaked away, as the result of kindling a fire against it...waterworn...'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; linear; straight; inc; plain; none; none; none; n/a |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1945, 144: `On the surviving portion of the original back of the stone there is a small plain cross'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | MOINENAMAQIOLACON Expansion: MOINENA MAQI OLACON Cuppage/etal/1986 250 reading only Macalister/1897 51--52 reading only Macalister/1945 142--144 reading only Ziegler/1994 263 reading only |
| McManus, D. (1991): | MOINENAMAQIOLACON Expansion: MOINENA MAQI OLACON McManus/1991 65 reading only |
| Gippert, J. (1997): | MOIN[E]NAMAQIOLACON Expansion: MOIN[E]NA MAQI OLACON Gippert/Web Ogham 147 reading only [Gippert 147] |
| Orientation: | vertical up |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undivided |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 94, 102, 116, 121. |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 143: `Inscription worn, but quite legible, in one line...The fracture crosses E3, in consequence of which this letter has previously been read U. On the surviving portion of the original back of the stone there is a small plain cross. Pelham's drawing in Vallancey's publication must have been made from memory, though his copy of the inscription, so far as it goes, is remarkably accurate. Unlike some others, he reads the fifth letter correctly as E, with a crack running through it; but he breaks off the top of the stone after the I of MAQI, where there is actually no fracture. The only explanation that I can think of is that he found the stone set upright on its top end, with OLACON buried and inaccessible, and that in working up his drawing from his rough notes, he reversed his incomplete copy of the inscription'. Gippert/Web, Ogham 147: `The last name might possibly be read as OLACONA, but the existence of a final A is more than doubtful. - Of the supposed E in the first name, only the first and the last notch is preserved, the other two scores having got lost because of the fracture of the stone'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |