| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:126 Macalister/1949:688 Petrie/1872:77 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1872 Graves, J. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 38: `This fragment...[came] from Clonburren, near Clonmacnois, and was drawn by Miss Boxwell from rubbings made by the Rev. James Graves'. Macalister/1909, 26: `by some slip the stone is said, in the letter press [of Petrie/1872] to belong to Clonburren'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 52. The stone was used twice with a cross and inscription on either side of the stone. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.48 x 0.44 x 0.1 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | frgmntry , poor Petrie/1872, 38: `the stone has been so much mutilated'. Macalister/1909, 25: `the present example is a mere fragment of what has been a very large slab'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: inc; outline; straight; half-round; inc; none; inner curv; ind; plain 2: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; cruciform; inner curv; ind; plain |
| Decorations: | Petrie/1872, 38: `The design of this stone appears to have been a cross within a circle'. Macalister/1909, 25--26, argues that this stone formed part of a series of crosses with `a circular expansion at the centre, and semi-circular expansions at the terminations'. Macalister/1949, 52: `Arm of a cross with semi-circular expansion at the end'. For the stone on the reverse, Macalister/1909, 38, states it is a `fragment of a seven-line cross...the centre contains a tetraskelion. The head of one of the worms survives'. Macalister/1949, 58, argues that the cross and inscription on the reverse represent 'a secondary use of the slab'. |
| Petrie, G. (1872): | --]NNGENI[-- Expansion: [FI]NNGENI Petrie/1872 38 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | [TIPRAIT] | ANNSENI Expansion: TIPRAIT ANNSENI Macalister/1909 26 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | TIPRAIT[EMAC] | ANNSENI Expansion: TIPRAIT[E MAC] ANNSENI Macalister/1949 52 reading only |
| Orientation: | Indeterminate |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; inc ; quadrant The inscription appears to be within a quadrant, but as we cannot tell which arm of the cross it is which survives we cannot tell the orientation of the inscription. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 929 - 929 (Macalister/1909) 929 - 931 (Lionard/1961) 929 - 929 (Macalister/1949) |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The A's are in the `OC' form; the E has an accent over it; the S is larger than the other letters, and the R has a curved top stroke followed by a sharp stroke to the right. |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1909, 26: `portions of an inscription remain...The bottom of the letters of the upper line alone remain'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
Lionard/1961, 164, accepts this identification and places his death at AD 929-931.
| Petrie, G. (1872): | [--]DO[--] Expansion: --]DO[-- Macalister/1909 38 reading only Macalister/1949 58 reading only Petrie/1872 24 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant The part of the inscription that survives is in the upper right quadrant. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow. |
| Legibility: | good |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |