| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:578 |
| Site: | DUNER |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1916 Macalister, R.A.S. |
| History: | Macalister/1949, 30: `Several stone bearing crosses are lying in a hall attached to the Protestant parish church of Dunleer, but only one is inscribed'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.0 x 0.51 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | earliest Macalister/1949, 30: `Several stone bearing crosses are lying in a hall attached to the Protestant parish church of Dunleer, but only one is inscribed'. |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | frgmntry , poor |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; n/a; round holl; angular; inner curv; ind; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 30: `a Latin cross, with hollowed angles at the crossing and surrounded with a circle, all contained in an oblong panel framed with two lines'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | M~ || [M~] | {A~} || {W~} | I~H~S~ || X~P~S~ | O~R~ || DOMAELPH[-- Expansion: MARIA M~ ALPHA OMEGA IHESUS CHRISTOS OROIT DO MAELPHATRAIC Expansion: MARIA M~ ALPHA OMEGA IHESUS CHRISTOS OROIT DO MAEL-PHETIR Macalister/1949 30 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | celtic and latin (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | The inscription includes IHS XPS indicating Greek, as well as OR DO indicating goidelic. |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | good Macalister/1949, 30--31: `The attempts at Greek letters in the cantons are curious. All the writing is at right angles with respect to the position of the cross, indicating that it was intended to lie in such a situation that passers-by would naturally approach it towards the long side of the slab'. |
| Lines: | 6 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |