| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:886 Petrie/1878:72 |
| Site: | DELGA |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1872 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1878, 62: `a portion of a stem of a cross, and such it was said to have been in the memory of an old man of upwards of ninety years of age at Delgany...It is now lying on its side...Drawn by M[argaret] S[tokes] from the stone, in the year 1871'. Macalister/1949, 87: `The stump of a plain cross standing in the old churchyard of Delgany'. |
| Geology: | Petrie/1878, 62: `coarse-grained granite, such as is commonly found in the neighbouring district'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.83 x 0.47 x 0.28 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | in ground |
| Location: | earliest Macalister/1949, 87: `The stump of a plain cross standing in the old churchyard of Delgany'. |
| Form: | cross-base |
| Condition: | incomplete , poor Macalister/1949, 87: `it is said that there was then [1878] a man in the neighbourhood, aged upward of ninety years, who remembered the monument as a complete cross...On the S. face there is at the top a panel containing a key pattern, much worn and scaled and mutilated by the fracture of the stone: beneath this is the inscription'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | geometric key pattern Macalister/1949, 87: `The N. face is quite plain. On each of the sides there is a sunk panel, containing no device. On the S. face there is at the top a panel containing a key pattern, much worn and scaled and mutilated by the fracture of the stone'.
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| Stokes, M. (1871): | O~R~DO | DICU | OCUS | [...]O | DRAN | SAIR Expansion: OROIT DO DICU OCUS [MAEL]ODRAN SAIR Translation: Pray for Dicu (PN) and [Mael]odran (PN) the wright. Petrie/1878 61--62, Plate XXXV reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | O~R~DO | ANLUA[N] | OCUS | DUCON | BRAN | SAIR Expansion: OROIT DO ANLUA[N] OCUS DU CONBRAN SAIR Macalister/1949 87, Plate VII concise discussion |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | S ; shaft ; on cross ; panel |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | McManus/1991, 79, 81. CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The A's are in the 'OC' form and the second D and the U's have a wedge-shaped finials. This second D also has a vertical ascender and an open bow. The Rs are majuscule, as are the Ss. The first D has an ascender which bends to the left over a close bow, and the U's each have short strokes to the right from the bottom of the right-most ascender. |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1949, 87: `The stone is so disintegrated that the letters are all but illegible: the above reading has been obtained after two protracted examinations, the second in Professor MacNeill's company. The illustration and reading in CIIL [Petrie/1878] are certainly wrong'. |
| Lines: | 6 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |