DINGL/1

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

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Readings

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

Notes

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

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