Corpus Refs: | Cuppage/etal/1986:801 Macalister/1945:177 |
Site: | CAMP |
Discovery: | recognised, 1850 Day |
History: | Macalister/1945, 169--170: `Found about the middle of the nineteenth century near Camp, on ground then belonging to Mr. Day of Beaufort House, near Killarney...as far as I know [it] first appears in print in a passing reference (JRSAI 21 [1891]: 520)...The stone then was, or had been, in use as a gatepost...Mr. Day transferred it to Beaufort, and erected it in his demesne...it remains where he placed it'. Cuppage et al/1986, 254: `Precise provenance unknown...A perforation near the top of the stone suggests that it may at one time have functioned as a gate-post'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 170: `sandstone'. |
Dimensions: | 1.25 x 0.48 x 0.2 (Cuppage/etal/1986) |
Setting: | on ground |
Location: | earliest Macalister/1945, 169--170: `Mr Day transferred it to Beaufort, and erected it in his demesne; and although the property has since then passed through several hands, it still remains where he placed it'. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | incomplete , some Cuppage et al/1986, 254: `[There is] a perforation near the top of the stone...The surface of the stone is very rough'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | --]CCILARIAV[I][--]COIVAG[-- Expansion: --]CCILARI AV[I][--MU]COI VAG[-- Cuppage/etal/1986 254 reading only Macalister/1945 170 reading only Ziegler/1994 266 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up along down |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 170: `cut on the two angle [sic]...reads (up-down)'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 125. |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 170: `The scores are much confused with the random strokes frequently explained as plough-scrapes'. |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 170: `There is nothing before the double C but one scratch on the H-surface, which cannot have any phonetic signficance. The top of the second angle is spalled away: there is room for another name of about the same length, in addition to the missing MU of MUCOI'. Cuppage et al/1986, 254: `the inscription, particularly the vowels, is not easy to read'. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | --]ANI Expansion: --]ANI Cuppage/etal/1986 254 reading only Macalister/1945 169--170 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated Cuppage et al/1986, 254: `near the top of one of the opposite angles'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Cuppage et al/1986, 254: `the letters ANI remain'. |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 170: `It bears the remains of an old inscription on the dexter angle of the main face, all of which has been spalled away except the final letters'. Cuppage et al/1986, 254: `Traces of a 2nd inscription are discernible near the top of one of the opposite angles'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |