| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:32 |
| Site: | GOWRN |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1849 du Noyer, G.V. |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 38: `Discovered in the foundation of the chancel of the old church of Gowran, when it was rebuilt as the parish church. It lay prostrate for a long time in the ruined nave, where it seems G.V. du Noyer first noticed the inscription in 1849...[it] is now set up against the altar rails of the rebuilt chancel'. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945, 38: `grit'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.5 x 0.38 x 0.3 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | on ground |
| Location: | on site Macalister/1945, 38: `now set up against the altar-rails of the rebuilt chancel'. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | incomplete , good McManus/1991, 172, note 36: `in a very bad condition generally'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; expanded; circular; none; none; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1945, 38: `A large cross potent, crookedly set out, is cut on the original base of the inscribed face'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1897): | MAQIERACIASMAQI[--]DIMAQAMUCOI Expansion: MAQI-ERACIAS MAQI [--]DI MAQA-MUCOI Macalister/1897 11 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | MAQIERAC[I]AS ||| [MA]QI | DIMAQ[A]MUC[OI][-- Expansion: MAQI-ERAC[I]AS [MA]QI DIMAQ[A] MUC[OI-- Macalister/1945 38 reading only |
| McManus, D. (1991): | [MAQI]ERAC[IAS] ||| [MAQI] | D[I]M[A]Q[A]MUC[O-- Expansion: [MAQI]-ERAC[IAS] [MAQI] D[I]M[A]Q[A] MUC[O-- McManus/1991 66 reading only |
| Gippert, J. (1997): | [I]ERAC[I][A]S[-- |||D[--]M[A][Q][A][M][U][C]O[--
Expansion: [--I]ERAC[IA]S[--] D[.]M[AQA] [MUC]O[-- Gippert/Web Ogham 32 substantial discussion [Gippert 32] |
| Orientation: | vertical up up |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; above cross ; undivided |
| Incision: | incised Macalister/1945, 38: `Inscription cut'. |
| Date: | 400 - 500 (Ziegler/1994) |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 38: `though chipped in places, on the whole in quite good condition...In the first line, the two ends of IM, IA, all of the Q except parts of Q125 and 2I345 are chipped away. The second MAQI is on the top of the stone, faint but traceable: its first two letters are chipped away. The ending of the second line of writing has been spalled away by blows of a sledgehammer or some similar tool, as usual to remove the proper name which followed MUCOI. The first few letters of this line form a name, DIMAQA (the second A chipped off) which has nothing to do with MAQ or MAQI'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |