COBOY/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:250
Site:COBOY
Discovery:recognised, 1945 Hitchcock, R.
History:Macalister/1945, 244: `found by Hitchcock in the inner chamber of a souterrain in which it formed one of the roofing stones; afterwards moved to a site in front of the police barrack (now a farmhouse) on the townland of Keel'.
Geology:
Dimensions:1.83 x 0.0 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:unattch
Location:other
Macalister/1945, 244: ` in front of the police barrack (now a farmhouse) on the townland of Keel'.
Form:plain
Condition:inc , inc
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):CATTUVVIRRMAQIRIT ||| [UVVE] ||| CASMUCOIALLATO
Expansion:
CATTUVVIRR MAQI RITUVVECAS MUCOI ALLATO
Macalister/1945 244 reading only
Ziegler/1994 273 reading only
McManus, D. (1991):CATTUVVIRRMAQIRIT ||| TAVVE ||| CASMUCOIALLATO
Expansion:
CATTUVVIRR MAQI RITTAVVECAS MUCOI ALLATO
McManus/1991 67 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up along down
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:466 - 533 (McManus/1991)
See McManus/1991, 88, 94.
500 - 700 (Ziegler/1994)
See Ziegler/1994, 147--148, 226.
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 94, 102, 116, 117, 125, 176.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 244: `The B-halves of the R's at the end of the first word are very faint, and at first sight there would seem to be justification for Brash's reading Cattuvviqq. But -RR is correct'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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