| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:131 Macalister/1949:691 Petrie/1872:179 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Graves, J. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 76: `Drawn by M[argaret] S[tokes] from a rubbing taken in the year 1869 by the Rev. James Graves'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1909, 27, and Macalister/1949, 53. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.46 x 0.34 x 0.08 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | incomplete , good Only the stem of the cross survives, the rest lost through breakage. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; inc; none; ind; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 27, and Macalister/1949, 53, argue, from what remains, that the cross would have had half-round terminations and a circular expansion at the centre. Petrie/1872, Plate LXXIV, fig. 179, does not show the cross. |
| Petrie, G. (1869): | [O~R~]DOMURETHACH Expansion: [OROIT] DO MURETHACH Translation: Pray for Murethach (PN). Macalister/1909 27 reading only Macalister/1949 53 reading only Petrie/1872 75 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant The inscription runs downwards in a single line within the lower right quadrant. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial D has an ascender which bends leftwards over an open heart-shaped bow, while the O also tapers downwards to a point; the M has a short leftwards stroke from the top of the first ascender; the R is minuscule; the E is three-pronged with the middle stroke elongated, and the H's are angular. |
| Legibility: | good |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |