CSMON/1

('The Giant's Stone'.)
Corpus Refs:Macalister/1897:48
Macalister/1945:47
Site:CSMON
Discovery:first mentioned, 1854 Tuomey, J.C.
History:Macalister/1945, 51: `discovered by J.C. Tuomey'.

Gippert/Web, Ogham 47: `In Macalister's times, the stone was `lying by the roadside' (Epig. 1, 76). Nowadays (1988) it is exposed with a sign post by the road leading to Castletimon'.

Geology:
Dimensions:1.5 x 0.48 x 0.25 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Gippert/Web, Ogham 47: `In Macalister's times, the stone was `lying by the roadside' (Epig. 1, 76). Nowadays (1988) it is exposed with a sign post by the road leading to Castletimon'.
Form:plain
Condition:complete , inc
Folklore:Macalister/1945, 52: 'The stone is …called "the Giant's Stone", from a localized version of the conventional legend that a giant had thrown it from a neighbouring hill'.
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


CSMON/1/1

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1897):NETACARINETACAG[I/NI]
Expansion:
NETACARI NETA-CAGI/N[I]
Macalister/1897 76 minor reference
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):NETACARINETACAGI
Expansion:
NETACARI NETACAGI
Macalister/1945 51--52 reading only
Gippert, J. (1988):[NE]TACARIN[E]TACA[M]I
Expansion:
[NE]TACARI N[E]TACA[M]I
Gippert/Web Ogham 47 substantial discussion [Gippert 47]

Notes

Orientation:vertical indeterminate
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:incised
Date:400 - 550 (Ziegler/1994)

350 - 450 (McManus/1991)
McManus/1991, 93.
Language:name only (ogham)
Ling. Notes:McManus/1991, 51, 107, 110.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:good
Macalister/1945, 51-52: `quite clear, though worn, owing to the stone being used as a seat by weary wayfarers'.

Gippert/Web. Ogham 47: `Whether there is a second M stroke in the last name or not, cannot be decided upon with certainty'.

Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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