Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:117 Macalister/1949:682 Petrie/1872:47 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 28: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 51. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.76 x 0.51 x 0.11 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | complete , some The top of the stone appears to have been lost. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; expanded; square; angular; inner curv; other; plain |
Decorations: | frame; geometric key pattern Macalister/1909, 23, `[A cross] of the Celtic type enclosed in a Greek fret-border. The present example is quadrate, the ends terminating below in spirals enclosing between them a panel containing a knot. The marginal fret is singularly irregular'. Macalister/1949, 51: `Wheel cross, base ending in spirals, all in a fret border'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | OROITARMAELA[N] Expansion: OROIT AR MAELA[N] Petrie/1872 28 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | OROITARMAELA[-- Expansion: OROIT AR MAELA[-- Macalister/1909 23 reading only Macalister/1949 51 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The O's are angular and almost lozenge-shaped; the R is majuscule; the A is in the `OC' form and the E is closed. |
Legibility: | some |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |