| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1897:7 Macalister/1945:149 |
| 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, 145: `Grit'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.27 x 0.38 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | other According to Macalister/1945, 145, 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 |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1897): | MAQQIQETTIA | MAQQICUNITTI Expansion: MAQQI QETTIA MAQQI CUNITTI Macalister/1897 28 reading only McManus/1991 65 reading only Ziegler/1994 264 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | MAQQIQUETTI ||| MAQQICUNITTI Expansion: MAQQI-QETTI MAQQI CUNITTI Macalister/1945 145--146 reading only |
| Cuppage, J. (1986): | MAQQICUNITTI ||| [M]A[Q]QIQETTI[A] Expansion: MAQQICUNITTI [M]A[Q]QI QETTI[A] Cuppage/etal/1986 251 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up up |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 108. |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | inc Macalister/1945, 146: `There is a faint, broad hollow notch after QETTI, at the end of the first line, not nearly as deep as the I-notches preceding it. It might be A, but I am inclined to reject it. In the second line, the N looks at first like an R, because the last scores (hardly the first) bend round the adjacent angle to the right: at this place the two angles approximate so closely that the stone-cutter evidently considered that he had insufficient breadth on the B-surface to hold the consonant scores which would have to be placed there. Beyond the letter in question the two angles coalesce'. Cuppage/etal/1986, 251: `The M is not now discernible but is recorded by Macalister...The first two scores of the Q have all but disappeared, but most earlier accounts include them. After the final I there is a less distinct notch which may represent A; Macalister included this in 1897 but subsequently rejected it in 1945'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |