| Corpus Refs: | Cuppage/etal/1986:352 Macalister/1945:173 |
| Site: | BRCKN |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1848 Hitchcock, R. |
| History: | |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
| Setting: | Lost (present 1848, missing 1945) |
| Location: | Possible fragment of the stone recorded and read by Macalister/1945, 166--167, as late as 1902. Macalister/1945, 166--167: `...the tenant [of the townland]...had it dressed and built into his cottage as a chimney-breast, thereby, of course, destroying the inscription, which seems to have been a very fine one. A few more scores, which had escaped the mason's hammer, still remained on the stone itself, as Hitchcock ascertained by visiting it and clearing off an accumulation of soot. The fragments were carried to Dublin by Hitchcock and presented to the Royal Irish Academy: but they appear to have been lost - at least, they are no longer to be identified...The late Canon Sweeney, sometime rector of Aunascaul, in the year 1902, showed me what he believed to be a fragment of this stone: found by his daughter in 1891on a fence on the townland. It was of small size (unfortunately I have no note of its exact dimensions) and was inscribed with the words [MAQ]QI MUCC[OI]...I do not know what became of this fragment after Canon Sweeney's death'. |
| Form: | Incomplete Information |
| Condition: | inc , n/a |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | --][MAQ]QIMUCC[OI][-- Expansion: --][MAQ]QI MUCC[OI][-- Cuppage/etal/1986 124 concise discussion Macalister/1945 167 concise discussion |
| Orientation: | Indeterminate |
| Position: | n/a ; inc ; inc ; ind |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Indeterminate (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | inc Macalister/1945, 167, comments on the surviving piece of stone, shown to him by Canon Sweeney in 1902: `At the beginning it was fractured through 2Q1 and at the end after 2C2'. |
| Lines: | |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |