DNMOR/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:26
Site:DNMOR
Discovery:first mentioned, 1902 Fitzgerald, W.
History:Macalister/1945, 30, records that the stone was moved from the old church of Donaghmore, near Carton, and thence, `to Carton demesne, and afterwards to its present situation in the National Museum'.
Geology:
Dimensions:0.76 x 0.36 x 0.23 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in display
Location:National Museum, Dublin
Macalister/1945, 30, notes that the stone is in the National Museum.
Form:plain
Condition:complete , good
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):NETTAVRECC ||| [KOI]MAQIMUCCOITRENALUGGO
Expansion:
NETTAVRECC [KOI] MAQI MUCCOI TRENALUGGO
Macalister/1945 30--31 reading only
Ziegler/1994 254 reading only
McManus, D. (1991):NETTAVROICC || [KOI]MAQIMUCCOITRENALUGGO
Expansion:
NETTAVROICC [KOI] MAQI MUCCOI TRENALUGGO
McManus/1991 66 concise discussion
McManus, D. (1991):NETTAVROECC||| [KOI]MAQIMUCCOITRENALUGGO
Expansion:
NETTAVROECC [KOI] MAQI MUCCOI TRENALUGGO
McManus/1991 66 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Incomplete Information
Position:inc ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Macalister/1945, 30: `The inscription is scratched in fine lines'.
Date:550 - 900 (Ziegler/1994)
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 109--110, 121.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:good
Macalister/1945, 30--31: `1N, 9" from the bottom of the stone is faint. 2E34, as well as the proximal ends of the the two C's following, are carried away, with a detached spall (there is hardly room for Rhys' restoration of the vowel, OI): the final vowel is also lost by flaking. On the second angle MAQI MUCCOI TREN- is plain, though the vowels are faint: but after the N a detached flake has carried away the whole of the B-surface'.

McManus/1991, 79, finds Macalister's restoration of the phrase KOI `doubtful'. He is also critical of Macalister's reading elsewhere (McManus/1991, 66): `Of the second E in Macalister's NETTAVRECC only the first two notches are visible and it appears to me that there was enough space remaining for an E or an I, which would give a more plausible reading VROECC or VROICC. Macalister's sketch is more accurate than the accompanying reading with regard to the last name on the inscription'.

Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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