Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1897:49 Macalister/1945:48 |
Site: | DNARD |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1903 Rhys, J. |
History: | |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.52 x 0.69 x 0.53 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | other Macalister/1945, 52: `on the farm called Old Mills, south of the village of Donard. Afterwards removed to the garden of a house (for a time the Civic Guards Barracks) in the village, where it still stands'.
Gippert/Web, Ogham 48: `This is now the residence of a landlord'. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | frgmntry , good Macalister/1945, 52: `the side bearing the latter angle has been split off from the stone', concluded Macalister, adding, in a footnote, `I am now inclined to doubt whether there is any such split, and to consider that the inscription is complete as it stands - an illustration of the prudential aposiopesis noticed above, p[late]. xiii'. McManus/1991, 172, notes, `Macalister's 'prudential aposiopesis' theory...[is] quite far-fetched'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1897): | IAQINIKOIMAQIMOB/U[COI]
Expansion: IAQINI KOI MAQI MOB/U[COI] Macalister/1897 76--77 minor reference |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | IA[Q]INIKOI ||| MAQIMUC[-- Expansion: IAQINI KOI MAQI MUC[-- Macalister/1945 52 reading only |
Gippert, J. (1988): | IA[Q]INIKOI[-- Expansion: IA[Q]INI KOI [-- Gippert/Web Ogham 48 substantial discussion [Gippert 48] |
Orientation: | vertical up along down |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 550 - 700 (Ziegler/1994) |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1897, 77: `The inscription is much worn and damaged...After it turns on to the top nothing definite can be stated about the inscription'. Macalister/1945, 52: `The first Q is flaked, and the C is practically worn away'. Gippert/Web, Ogham 48: `What Macalister read on the part on the top of the stone was not verifiable when the stone was visited because it was too much covered with lichen. Re-reading is necessary'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |