Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:863 |
Site: | GALPR |
Discovery: | arch excav, 1935 Kendrick, T.D. |
History: | Found by T.D. Kendrick during his excavations of the priory. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.99 x 0.66 x 0.12 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | unattch |
Location: | on site Macalister/1949, 72: `in an out-house near the gate-lodge'. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | frgmntry , poor |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: inc; outline; straight; expanded; ind; ind; none; none; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 75: `bearing a cross of simple design; but the greater part of the inscribed face is flaked away, and but little is left of it'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | +O~R~D[O][--]| LAN[-- Expansion: OROIT D[O][--]LAN[-- Macalister/1949 75, Plate XXXVI reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | many ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated Macalister/1949, 75: `There was an inscription in two lines, above and below the transom of the cross, and apparently inverted with respect to it: for when the letters are set in an upright position, the longer portion of the vertical stem is above the transom, the shorter portion below. The inscription begins with a horizontal stroke, presumably the sinister arm of an initial cross, which has been broken from the stone with the rest of the dexter margin'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is half-uncial. The D is O-shaped with a short stroke to the left from the top left corner of the bow. The R is half-uncial, the A minuscule, the L curved and the N has a flat top stroke. |
Legibility: | poor |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |