| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1897:6 Macalister/1945:148 |
| Site: | BALIG |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1782 Pelham, H. |
| History: | According to Macalister/1945, 144, this stone was found `in an ancient burial-ground, callled Kilvickillane, on the shore of Smerwick Bay'. It was subsequently transferred in 1848 to Burnham, the seat of Lord Ventry, where it remains. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945, 144: `close grained sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.05 x 0.57 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | other According to Macalister/1945, 144, this stone was found `in an ancient burial-ground, callled Kilvickillane, on the shore of Smerwick Bay'. It was subsequently transferred in 1848 to Burnham, the seat of Lord Ventry, where it remains. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1945, 144: `rather worn'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1897): | CARRICAIMAQQITENAC[I] Expansion: CARRICAI MAQQI TENAC[I] Macalister/1897 27--28 reading only Ziegler/1994 264 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | DUBONIRRAS ||| MAQQITENAC[I] Expansion: DUBONIRRAS MAQQI TENAC[I] Macalister/1945 144--145 reading only McManus/1991 65 reading only Ziegler/1994 264 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up down |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 144: `unusually disposed (down dexter-up sinister)'. |
| Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 144: `pocked'. |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 108. |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 144--145: `...rather worn...At first sight the D might seem to be a C, but the two additional scores which would have to be used are mere scratches and do not reach the angle. The S is faint: S3S4 are broken away. The final C is faint but traceable, just under the top of the stone: the top bears three apparent vowel-notches, reduced to evanescence, which might be the last three notches of the missing final I: the first two would, in any case, have disappeared, as the turn of the angle from the sinister edge is broken. But they are rather far away from the C, and, on the whole, I am doubtful about them, while admitting that the name probably ended with an I when it was intact'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |