| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:145 Macalister/1949:704 Petrie/1872:131 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1872 O'Neill |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 61, `Drawn by M[argaret] S[tokes], from a rubbing made by Mr. O'Neill'. Recorded by Macalister/1949, 54, as still on site. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.12 x 0.56 x 0.07 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | complete , good |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; none; plain |
| Decorations: | geometric ribbon interlace Macalister/1909, 29: `A slab bearing a three-line cross, with the usual circular and semi-circular expansions, containing triquetras very roughly executed'. |
| Petrie, G. (1872): | O~R~ || DOODRÁN | HÁU || EOLAIS Expansion: OROIT DO ODRÁN HÁU EOLAIS Translation: Pray for Odrán (PN) descendant of Eolais (PN). Petrie/1872 61 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | O~R~ || D~O~ODRÁN | HÁU || EOLAIS Expansion: OROIT DO ODRÁN HÁU EOLAIS Macalister/1909 29 reading only Macalister/1949 54 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription runs down the stone in two lines in all four quadrants. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 994 - 994 (Macalister/1949) 994 - 994 (Petrie/1872) 994 - 994 (Lionard/1961) |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Petrie/1872, 61: `Hau is the dative singular of `have', the old Irish form of the modern `ua' or `o': `have' (gl. nepos), Zeuss, G.C.ed. Ebel, p. 1021; nominative plural `havi', ib., p. 48, dative plural `avib', ib., p. 1020, accusative `auu', Book of Armagh'. |
| Palaeography: | Macalister/1909, 29: `The mark of contraction over the DO is curious; evidently it is to satisfy a desire for symmetry, and to balance the similar mark over the OR. I suspect the scribe intended to write the whole name in the sinister cantons, but, finding he had no room, was obliged to upset his scheme by squeezing Odran into the space after do'. CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial OR has a contraction mark over it, as does the following DO. Both these contraction marks have bifid terminals. The ascender of the D bends to the left over the bow, and has a short vertical stroke at its end. The R's are capitalis-like; the 1st and 3rd A's are in the `OC' form, and the 2nd and 3rd A's have accents over them; the E is closed. |
| Legibility: | good |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 1 |
| Doubtful: | no |
Macalister/1949, 54: `scribe of Clonmacnois [obit] 994 A.D.'.
Lionard/1961, 166, accepts this identification.