Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1897:47 Macalister/1945:10 |
Site: | BREAS |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1874 Ferguson, S. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 13--15, at 13 records that when initially found this stone had fallen, but was re-erected, at Ferguson's suggestion, `at the charges of the Royal Irish Academy'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 3.66 x 0.76 x 0.6 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | earliest |
Form: | megalith Macalister/1945, 15: `As at Corrower, we suspect that this was a pillar-stone of the Bronze Age, afterwards appropriated for an ogham epitaph'. |
Condition: | complete , some |
Folklore: | Gippert/Web, Ogham 10: `According to Macalister, Epig. 1, 75, `an old woman living close by told...that this was the stone of King `Garbry' (sic), whose dwelling was at Summerhill, close by; that he was killed there one day when his wife was in Killala, and that she...hastened to cross the inlet between Killala and Summerhill, but was drowned'; this is `probably a recollection of the fate of Tresi, wife of Amalgaid prince of Tirawley.'' |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1897): | LE/IGG[O..O]SADIULENGESQ[A]MAQCORRBRIMAQAMMLLORATTA Expansion: LE/IGG[O..O]SADIULENGESQ [A]DSA MAQ CORRBRI MAQ AMMLLORATTA Macalister/1897 73--75 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | L[E]GG[--]SD[--]LEGwESCAD Expansion: L[E]GG[--]SD[--] LEGwESCAD Macalister/1945 13 reading only |
Gippert, J. (1996): | -]L[O]G[O][--]S[DA][--]ULEG[-]O[VC][-- Expansion: -]L[O]G[O][--]S[DA][--]ULEG[-]O[VC][-- Gippert/Web Ogham 10 reading only [Gippert 10] |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc. |
Date: | 550 - 900 (Ziegler/1994) |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 13: `The inscription covers the two angles of the southern face. Its beginning is badly damaged by spalling, to all appearance with intention: as at Corrower [CORRO] the destroyer worked on the dexter angle up to the limit of his reach, but he left the sinister angle alone. A large flake has gone from the B-surface of the injured angle...and nothing now appears but an L, followed by a vowel (apparently E), and after that the B-halves of two G's. A smaller, but yet more effective, fracture on the H-surface has abolished the H-halves of the G's and anything else that there might have been on that side. A battered length of angle follows, and then follows a row of fairly perfect letters, running up to the top...After several examinations of the stone, I have given up all hope of filling, even imperfectly, the long gap after the G. The gap after 1D cannot have contained anything but vowels, of which three notches remain. Having regard to the length of the space, the most likely restoration is IU. The remainder of the inscription is quite clear: the final D is, and always was, the last letter on this side, but I have no suggestion to make as to the meaning of this part on the inscription [sic]'.
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Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | MAQCORRBRIMAQAMMLLOGwITT Expansion: MAQ CORRBRI MAQ AMMLLOGwITT Macalister/1928 14--15 concise discussion |
McManus, D. (1991): | MAQCORRB[.]RIMAQAMMLLO[…]TT Expansion: MAQ CORRB[.]RI MAQ AMMLLO[…]TT McManus/1991 96 reading only |
Gippert, J. (1996): | MAQCORRBRIM[A]QAMML[LOG--T--
Expansion: MAQ CORRBRI M[A]Q AMML[LOG--T-- |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc. |
Date: | 550 - 900 (Ziegler/1994) |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 96, 108, 125. |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | good Macalister/1945, 14: `The writing on the dexter side of this part presents no difficulty'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |
McManus/1991, 53, cites this but notes, `the condition of 10, however, is such as to leave some doubt as to its reading and its language would appear to be more than two generations removed from the mid-fifth century'.
Macalister/1945, 15: `The barony of Tirawley, where this stone stands, takes its name from the fifth-century local king Amalgaid; as Amlongad is an early form of this name, and as the king had a son,Coirpre, it is quite likely that this stone is actually a monument of a member of his family'.