| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:884 |
| Site: | GLEND |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1943 Ferguson, S. |
| History: | |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.07 x 0.86 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | in ground |
| Location: | on site Macalister/1949, 84--85: `The stone was found in digging a grave and the remaining portion is said to still be in the ground...[the other portion] is now clamped against the inner face of the north wall of the Cathedral chancel'. |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | incomplete , poor |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: inc; interlace; inc; inc; inc; none; none; other; inc |
| Decorations: | geometric other Macalister/1949, 84: `It has a panel of floral work in the middle flanked by two others, apparently quite plain: but that on the sinister side has the sadly abraded inscription'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | [{A}{W}]{*}:ORDOMUIRCHER[TAC] HUCHATHAL[A][I][N] | OCUSDOGUT{N}OD{A}R:{A}{W}:I:DOTHIGERNAUFOG[ARTAIG] Expansion: {AW} *: OR DO MUIRCHERTACH U CHATHALAIN OCUS DO GUTNODAR, {AW} :I: DO THIGERNA U FOGARTAIG Macalister/1949 84--86, Plate XXXVI substantial discussion |
| Orientation: | vertical up |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; beside cross ; undivided |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 1151 - 1151 (Lionard/1961) |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: This inscription begins with alpha and omega, and a second pair are found midway along the second line. In both cases the alpha is an angle-bar A. Macalister/1949, 86, notes that the initial alpha-omega `may be mere fractures', and that the asterisk in his reading `is a succession of six triangular sinkings arranged in a circle'. The N in Gutnodar is dotted. Macalister/1949, 85, comments on this: `The interpolated prayer for Gutnodar (note the dot of the transported n placed inside the letter) probably names the lapidary'. Dots precede and follow the I imediately following the second alpha and omega. The lettering is Insular half-uncial. Numerous examples of the 'OC' A can be seen. The Ts are curved, the U's are flat-bottomed, the Gs are half-uncial and the Ds have ascenders which bend to the left over open bows. In the first example the bow is closed and almost lozenged-shaped. The Hs are minuscule and the Rs are varied in form. |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1949, 84--86, relied upon the squeeze made in 1873 by Richard Burchett and deposited with the Royal Irish Academy, as `the inscription is now all but effaced'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |