Corpus Refs: | Cuppage/etal/1986:803 Macalister/1945:179 |
Site: | DINGL |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1896 Macalister, R.A.S. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 171, records that this stone was found in a stream beside the parochial school of Dingle, but that by 1896 it was `lying in the schoolhouse, where I saw it'. By 1945 it had moved again, and was 'preserved in the (Protestant) parish Church'. Cuppage et al/1986, 254--255, states that the stone is now missing. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.38 x 0.33 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1945, missing 1986) |
Location: | Recorded as extant in Macalister/1945, 172, and as lost in Cuppage et al/1986, 255. Cuppage/etal/1986, 255: `now missing'. |
Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 172; `the fragment is evidently the top of a pillar'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , some |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | --][E!]TORIGAS Expansion: [AVI]TORIGAS Cuppage/etal/1986 255 reading only Macalister/1945 171--172 reading only Ziegler/1994 266 reading only |
McManus, D. (1991): | [--]ETORIGAS Expansion: [--]ETORIGAS McManus/1991 94 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up along |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 500 - 550 (Ziegler/1994) If Macalister/1945, 171--172, is correct in reconstructing the name as AVITORIGAS then we may use the dating of Ziegler/1994, 132--134, to identify when this inscription was produced. 366 - 433 (McManus/1991) See McManus/1991, 93--94. |
Language: | name only (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | n/a Macalister/1945, 171--172: `A nick on the edge may possibly be the tip of a preceding B-score: the fragment is evidently the top of the pillar, with the last few letters of the last name'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |