Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:41 |
Site: | CSKEE |
Discovery: | non-arch dig, 1898 Rhys, J. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 46-47: `said to have been found digging a grave in the old cemetery of St. Ciaran's...and now set up as a headstone over a modern grave'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.66 x 0.39 x 0.18 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | on ground |
Location: | on site Macalister/1945, 46--47: `in the old cemetery of St. Ciaran's...and now set up as a headstone over a modern grave'. Gippert/Web, Ogham 41: `When visited in 1978, it was erected upon a pedestal beneath a wall'. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1945, 47, writes that some of the inscription was `much chipped', and that some of the pillar is `hidden in the earth'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Mac Neill, J. (1907): | CONNIMAQ ||| IMU ||| COILUGUNI Expansion: CONN MAQI MUCOI LUGUNI MacNeill/1907 46 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | [COV]AGNIMAQ ||| I[MU ||| COI]LUG[UNI] Expansion: [COV]AGNI MAQI [MUCOI] LUG[UNI] Macalister/1945 46--47 reading only |
Gippert, J. (1978): | COVAGNIMAQ[I] | [MUC]O[I] LUGUNI Expansion: COVAGNI MAQ[I] [MUC]O[I] LUGUNI Gippert/Web 41 reading only [Gippert 41] |
McManus, D. (1991): | COVAGN[I]MAQ ||| [IMU] ||| C[OI]LUG[U]N[I] Expansion: COVAGN[I] MAQ[I MU]C[OI] LUG[U]N[I] McManus/1991 66 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up along down |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 47: `the inscription is in two lines (up-down)'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 400 - 499 (Korolev/1984) 400 - 550 (Ziegler/1994) |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 47: `the inscription...is in good condition, except for the word MUCOI, which is much chipped. Three letters are hidden in the earth at the bottom of each line'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
McManus/1991, 111--112, further argues that this person, as a result of their sept name, may have been a member of the Luigni of Meath.
Ziegler/1994, 156, argues for this being the genitive singular of an O-stem with the diminutive suffix *-gno-, and that in Old Irish this name gave Cuan.
McManus/1991, 111--112: `LUGUNI (Dál Luigni) ... the Luigni are associated mainly with Connacht and Meath'.