| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:7 |
| Site: | CORRO |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1945 Cunney, A. |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 9: `The inscription was discovered by Mr. Austin Cunney, National School Teacher, Attymass. The stone stands at the back of a farmhouse on the townland, and its great height makes it conspicuous'. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945, 9: `a pillar stone of grit'. |
| Dimensions: | 2.82 x 1.04 x 0.25 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in ground |
| Location: | inc Macalister/1945, 9: `The stone stands in the back of a farmhouse on the townland, and its great height makes it conspicuous'. |
| Form: | megalith Macalister/1945, 10: `The exceptional size of the stone suggests that it was originally a bronze-age megalithic pillar-stone, adapted by a later ogham carver for his own purposes'. McManus/1991, 49, agrees, including this stone as one of a number of `megalithic proportions'. |
| Condition: | complete , inc |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | --MA]QCERAN[I] ||| AVIATHECETAIMIN Expansion: --]MAQ CERAN[I] AVI ATHECETAIMIN Macalister/1945 9--10 concise discussion |
| Gippert, J. (1978): | --]N[--]Q[--] ||| A[--]ECETAIMI[N][-- Expansion: --]N[--]Q[--] A[--]ECETAIMI[N][-- Gippert/Web Ogham 7 reading only [Gippert 7] |
| Ziegler, S. (1994): | [MA]CERAN[I] ||| AVIA{O}ECETAIMIN Expansion: [MA]CERAN[I] AVI A{O}ECETAIMIN Ziegler/1994 253 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up up |
| Position: | NW ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 10: `On both edges the scores are rather broad and shallow, pocked and rubbed smooth'. |
| Date: | 500 - 550 (Ziegler/1994) |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 95, 121. |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 9, noted that this inscription had been 'intentionally battered away for a length of about 2' 9 " - to the height, we may presume, that the destroyer could conveniently reach - so that the name of the owner is totally lost'. Gippert/Web, Ogham 7: `The existence of the ó-forfid cannot be ascertained at all: at the given position of the sinister angle, there is just a space, wide enough enough for two (or even three) strokes so that L,D,G etc. could as well be assumed. Before the first vowel notches on the same angle, four or five contiguous strokes seem to be visible; it depends on what we regard as the angle (which is bifurcated at this position) whether these belong to the B-surface or, rather, the H-surface. In the latter case, we could assume to read *MAQI instead of Macalister's *AVI; the remnants of an M may even be realized immediately above the (natural?) shoulder of the stone. It cannot be taken for granted that Macalister was right in assuming that it was the beginning of the inscription what he searched for on the dexter angle, and there is no reason to agree that it was `battered away' intentionally'. McManus/1991, 79, also doubts the use of a supplementary character in this inscription. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |