| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:26 Macalister/1949:622 Petrie/1872:59 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 33: `This stone was drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Macalister/1949, 45, records the stone as still on site. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.66 x 0.46 x 0.08 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | name-slab |
| Condition: | incomplete , poor A break in the top of the stone has taken the top of both the cross and the inscriptions. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; plain; plain; none; none; other; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 6: `A plain latin cross fitchee'. The terminal of the bottom arm of the cross is tapering, much as a sword blade. |
| Petrie, G. (1822): | TET[--] Expansion: TET[GHAL] Petrie/1872 33 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | TETS[-- Expansion: TETS[-- Macalister/1909 6 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | TETG[-- Expansion: TETG[AL][-- Macalister/1909 6 reading only Macalister/1949 45 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription in placed within the upper two quadrants. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 709 - 709 (Lionard/1961) |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. Macalister/1949, Plate XII, shows the middle stroke of the E as not joined with the rest of the letter. |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1909, 6, speaks of the `three more letters now spalled away'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
Lionard/1961, 157, does make this identification and dates the inscription to AD 709.