| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:205 OSullivan/etal/1996:914 |
| Site: | DERIV |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1897 Bland, F.C. |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 199, records that after being found in Askive Woods the stone was taken by Mr F. C. Bland, its discoverer, to his garden. Subsequently, 'by the good offices of the Great Southern Railway, which ultimately acquired the Bishop's house as the nucleus of their hotel, it was deposited in the National Museum'. OSullivan et al/1996, 242, cites Macalister in 1897 as its earliest reference, and states that the stone is now in the National Museum of Ireland. |
| Geology: | OSullivan/etal/1996, 242: `sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.64 x 0.24 x 0.22 (OSullivan/etal/1996) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | National Museum, Dublin (Cat: 1931:433) OSullivan et al/1996, 242: `now in N[ational] M[useum of] I[reland]'. |
| Form: | Indeterminate |
| Condition: | incomplete , some Macalister/1945, 200, and OSullivan et al/1996, 242, both note that the stone had suffered considerable damage |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; linear; straight; plain; plain; angular; none; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1945, 200: `a roughly drawn saltire cross within a rectangle, cut on the inscribed face'. OSullivan et al/1996, 242: `A diagonal cross enclosed in a rough rectangular frame occurs on the face of the stone between the two inscribed angles'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | S[M][--]BNAGMA[Q]Q ||| I ||| ERCIA Expansion: S[M][--]BNAG MA[Q]QI ERCIA Macalister/1945 199--200 reading only OSullivan/etal/1996 242 reading only Ziegler/1994 269 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up along down |
| Position: | inc ; arris ; beside cross ; undivided OSullivan et al/1996, 242: `The inscription is...along two angles and across its top'. |
| Incision: | incised |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 199--200: `The inscription is difficult to make out, at least at the beginning. The first scores are cut upon a thickening of the angle, which stands out above the adjacent face like a raised margin. There is here an S, followed by a rather ghostly indication of the B-half of an M. But we are not to think of an initial ANM, for there was certainly no fifth score to the S. A space of 4 1/2 inches follows the S, containing nothing but the possible M just mentioned: the H-surface is flaked away, and any letters which may have been there have gone, along with the associated vowels. This space would contain about 9 scores, for the following letters BNAG, which are fairly clear, occupy the same space of 4 1/2 inches. The G tends to a backward slope, as does the M which follows it: there is no trace of any vowel between the G and the M. This M is, no doubt, the initial of MAQI or perhaps MAQQI - there is just room for a lost Q before the Q of which traces are extant. The I of this word is on the shoulder of the stone. On the sinister angle is ERCIA, all rather faint: the H-halves of R12 are broken away, and the C is chipped to evanescence'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |