CACHU/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:872
Site:CACHU
Discovery:first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G.
History:Fanning/OhEailidhe/1980, 12, `First recorded by Petrie who found it in 1822 lying on the side of a mound in the estate at Shurock House near Moate. He was informed by old people in the neighbourhood that it had been removed from the old church at Calraighe (Calry)...At present it is built into some wall remains in the centre of the old graveyard at Labaun, Mount Temple, near Moate'.
Geology:Macalister/1949, 79: `grit'.

Fanning/OhEailidhe/1980, 12, `sandstone'.

Dimensions:0.86 x 0.89 x 0.15 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Fanning/OhEailidhe/1980, 12, `At present it is built into some wall remains in the centre of the old graveyard at Labaun, Mount Temple, near Moate'.
Form:cross-slab
Macalister/1949, 79: ` slab'.
Condition:complete , good
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: latin; linear; straight; bifid; plain; none; none; none; n/a
Decorations:

Macalister/1949, 79: `a small cross fourchée'.

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Inscriptions


CACHU/1/1

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):+ OR~DOMA | ELMAIRE
Expansion:
+ OROIT DO MAELMAIRE
Macalister/1949 79 reading only
Fanning, T. et al. (1980):+ OR~DOMA | ELMAIRE
Expansion:
+ OROIT DO MAELMAIRE
Fanning/ÓhÉailidhe/1980 12 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up
Position:n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided
Incision:inc
Macalister/1949, 79: `The inscription appears to have been tampered with; the letters are unnaturally sharp'.
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial O tapers downward to a point and the minuscule R has a contraction mark over it; the D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow; the first M has a flat top stroke which extends slightly to the left; the A's are in the `OC' form; the first E is rounded and majuscule with a slightly elongated middle stroke; the L is curved; the first upright of the second M appears to have a short leftward hook at its top; the second R is again minuscule, but this time more angular, and the final E is minuscule and closed.
Legibility:some
Macalister/1949, 79: `The inscription appears to have been tampered with; the letters are unnaturally sharp, as though knife-cut, and the D in the first line, and the I in the second, have been prolonged upwards'.
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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