| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:150 Macalister/1949:709 Petrie/1872:133 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 61: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Macalister/1909, 30: `Since Petrie drew it in 1822...the stone has been broken in two'. Macalister/1949, 54, records the stone as still on site. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.97 x 0.58 x 0.08 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1909, indicates a break in the stone, as well as `a small roughness on the surface of the stone', but this latter seems to pre-date the inscription. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; none; decorated |
| Decorations: | other Macalister/1909, 30, argues that the cross is identical with those on CLMAC/112 and CLMAC/114 and that it is a `three line cross, with circular expansions containing triskelions and blank semi-circular terminals'. |
| Petrie, G. (1822): | O~R~ || DOBO NUIT Expansion: OROIT DO BONUIT Macalister/1909 30 reading only Macalister/1949 54 reading only Petrie/1872 61 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription runs down in one line through the two right-hand quadrants. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial OR has a contraction mark over it; the R is majuscule; the D has an ascender which bends leftwards over an open heart-shaped bow; the B is open-bowed and Macalister/1949, 54, states that `there is no fracture or lost letter between O and N: merely a superficial roughness passed over by the engraver'. |
| Legibility: | good |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |