Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1907:178 Macalister/1945:103 |
Site: | BARHA |
Discovery: | recognised, 1845 Haly, D. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 102, `From a souterrain in a ringfort, which was dismantled in 1845 to make a cabbage-garden. A gamekeeper named Denis Haly (so spelt in Windele's notebook, from which these facts are derived) whom Windele had subsidized to look out for antiquities, especially ogham stones, noticed the inscription on one of the lintels, raised with the others, and laid on the rampart of the fort for subsequent disposal; so he came by night and carried it off, and sold it for £1 to Windele. The stone was taken to the Royal Cork Institution, and is now in the museum of University College, Cork'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 102, `sandstone'. |
Dimensions: | 1.42 x 0.38 x 0.1 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | unattch |
Location: | University College Cork Macalister/1945, 102, `...in the museum of University College, Cork'. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | incomplete , some |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1907): | CARRTTACCGAQIMOCCAGGI Expansion: CARRTTACC GAQI MOCCAGGI Macalister/1907 123--124 reading only Ziegler/1994 260 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | CARRTTACCGAQIMUCAGG[I] Expansion: CARRTTACC GAQI MU CAGG[I] Macalister/1907 123--124 concise discussion Macalister/1945 102--103 reading only Ziegler/1994 260 reading only |
Gippert, J. (1981): | [C]ARRTTACCMMAQIMU[-]CAGG[-- Expansion: [C]ARRTTACC MMAQI MU[- ]CAGG[-- Gippert/Web Ogham 103 reading only [Gippert 103] |
McManus, D. (1991): | CARRTTACCMMAQIMUCAGG[I] Expansion: CARRTTACC MMAQI MU CAGG[I] McManus/1991 65 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undivided |
Incision: | incised Macalister/1945, 102, `finely cut scores'. |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 96, 108, 115, 124. |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 102, `GAQI MU is not a blunder: as we have already seen (p. xii), it is a deliberate `camouflage' of the tabooed formula MAQI MUCOI. U is slightly larger than the other two notches, but not sufficiently so to make it into a consonant score. Between MU and CAGGI there is a blank space of 2 1/2". Whatever this name may represent or denote, it reappears, again as an ancestral name, in NETA CAGI (47): and we note with interest that it has been injured on the stone before us, part of the second G and the final I having been knocked off'. McManus/1991, 172, note 36, remarks that this theory is `quite far fetched'. Gippert/Web, 103,`There is no reason to read GAQI instead of MMAQI with an (exceptional) double MM. There is a larger space between MU and CAGG leaving room for a three or four stroke letter; possibly there was a double CC originally'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |