| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:42 |
| Site: | BALGH |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1944 Macalister, R.A.S. |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 47, gives no details of the whereabouts of this stone, other than 'Balloughton' in the Barony of Bargy. Moore/1996, 13, gives the location and grid-reference, and implies that the stone has not been moved in the interim. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 2.9 x 1.37 x 1.07 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in ground |
| Location: | earliest |
| Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 47: `tapering upwards'. |
| Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1945, 48, indicates that the two angles of the western face have `been completely hammered away'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | other Macalister/1945, 47-48: `bearing on the southern face, four small cup-marks arranged as though at the angles of an irregular quadrilateral figure - a vertical groove running through the two on the dexter side: and in the middle of the eastern face three similar cupmarks forming an inverted triangle'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | [--] Expansion: [--] Macalister/1945 47--48 minor reference |
| Orientation: | vertical up |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Incomplete Information (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 48: `ogham writing...which, however, has been completely hammered away'. Moore/1996, 13, rejects the idea that an inscription ever existed on this stone. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | yes |