| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:157 Macalister/1949:714 Petrie/1872:144 Petrie/1872:97 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 64: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 55. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.99 x 0.66 x 0.05 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1909, 32: `The inscription is much worn, and is injured by flaking of the surface of the stone...worn and injured'. Macalister/1949, 55: `partly chipped away'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; ; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; none; decorated |
| Decorations: | geometric key pattern; geometric spiral Macalister/1909, 31: `seven-line cross. The centre has a device of divergent spirals, and the...terminals have key-patterns of rich design'. |
| Petrie, G. (1822): | O~R~DO || TH[..]G | AN Expansion: OROIT DO TH[AD]GAN Macalister/1909 31--32 reading only Macalister/1949 55 reading only Petrie/1872 64 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription runs down through the two right-hand quadrants. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 920 - 920 (Lionard/1961) |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial O[R] had a contraction mark over it; the D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow and the faint A is shown as being in the `OC' form. |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1909: `The inscription is much worn, and is injured by flaking of the surface of the stone'. Macalister/1949, 55: `the name is partly chipped away'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |