Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:146 Macalister/1949:705 Petrie/1872:136 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 62: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Macalister/1899, 116, records the slab as still on site. Macalister/1909, 29: `To my great regret I failed utterly to find this slab on my third visit, though I twice ransacked the whole churchyard with the special purpose of re-discovering it'. Macalister/1949, 54: `The slab is now lost'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1901, missing 1905) |
Location: | Macalister/1899, 116 records the stone as still on site, yet Macalister/1909, 29, records that he could not find the stone on his third visit in 1905. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , n/a Macalister/1909, 29: `lower half of a...much worn slab'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; interlace; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; none; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric ribbon interlace Macalister/1909, 29, argues for knot-work on the upright of the cross rather than the `Gothic-looking floral scroll' of Petrie/1872, Plate LV. Macalister/1949, 54: `covered with interlacement'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | [O~R~D]OBRAN |[UCHE]LLACHAIN Expansion: [OROIT D]O BRAN [U CHE]LLACHAIN Translation: Pray for Bran (PN), descendant of Cellachan (PN). Petrie/1872 62 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | --]TAR | [..] || [UA]LLA[C]HAIN Expansion: [OROI]T AR [UA]LLACHAIN Macalister/1909 29 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | --]AR | [UA] || LLA[C]HAIN Expansion: [OROIT] AR [UA]LLACHAIN Macalister/1949 54 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription seen by Macalister was in the two lower quadrants. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The A's are in the `OC' form; the R is majuscule; the L's are curved and the final N appears to have a short curved stroke to the right from the bottom of the final descender. |
Legibility: | some |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |