DNARD/1

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

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Inscriptions


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Readings

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]

Notes

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

Names

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