Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:74 Power/etal/1992:1033 |
Site: | CARHA |
Discovery: | recognised, 1906 O'Crowley, J.J. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 77: `Here there is (or was - I have heard rumours of its destruction) a souterrain ... It had an entrance-chamber roofed with large flat stones, supported on upright pillars; two of the latter were the lower ends of ogham stones, broken to make them of size suitable for the purpose of the masons. The inscriptions were discovered by Mr. J.J. O'Crowley [in 1906]'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.79 x 0.2 x 0.18 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | inc |
Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 77: `upright pillar'. |
Condition: | incomplete , some Macalister/1945, 77, `[The stones were] broken to make them a size suitable for the purposes of the masons'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | CONANNM[...]S[-- Expansion: CONANN M[AQI] S[-- Macalister/1945 78 reading only Power/etal/1992 124 reading only |
Orientation: | Indeterminate |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | scored Macalister/1945, 78: `minute scores'. |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 88, 107, 113. |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | inc Macalister/1945, 78: `A flake, knocked off from the H-surface, had carried away all of the the word MAQI except the B-half of the M'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |