Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:57 Power/etal/1997:7965 |
Site: | GRENL |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1879 Brash, R.R. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 62, cites Brash/1879, as the earliest record of this stone. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 2.5 x 0.6 x 0.3 (Power/etal/1997) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | earliest Macalister/1945, 62: `In a field not far from the ruin of Mourne Abbey'. |
Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 62: `a stone... tapering almost to a point at the top'.
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Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1945, 62: `The inscription has been lamentably injured in recent years, by Yahoos...Above and below the N there are deep grooves...probably marks left by tool-sharpening'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
MacNeil, E. (1909): | T[R]EN[OMA]QIMUCOIQRITTI Expansion: T[R]EN[O] [MA]QI MUCOI QRITTI MacNeill/1909 361 reading only McManus/1991 179 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | T[R]EN[UMA]QIMUCOIQRITTI Expansion: TRENU MAQI MUCOI QRITTI Macalister/1945 62 reading only Power/etal/1997 168 listing |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | SE ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 62: `Inscription on one angle'. Power/etal/1997, 168: `inscription cut along SE edge starting 0.45m from ground to near full height of stone'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 121. |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 62: `The B-halves of 1R are chipped away (hence Brash's reading TTGENU) as is also 1U and the following MA...Above and below the N there are deep grooves, of no phonetic importance -- probably marks left by tool-sharpening'. Power/etal/1997, 168: `Macalister...gave inscription as TRENU MAQI MUCOI QRITTI; due to defacing of lower scores, first word given as TTGENU by Brash (1879, 138); MacNeill (1909, 361) gave the first word as TRENO, a reading McManus (1991, 179) considered `possible''. |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 62: `The inscription has been lamentably injured in recent years by Yahoos, who have cut extra scores upon it, and tampered with those already in existence; it would indeed be now difficult to interpret the inscription, for anyone who had not previously been familiar with it'. Power/etal/1997, 168: `inscription weathered and defaced by cattle rubbing and hone scores'. McManus/1991, 49, lists this as one inscription that has suffered from vandalism. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
McManus/1991, 107, 179: `57 TRENU (leg. -I?, Trén, trén `strong' or Trian[35])'.
[35] MacNeill (1909, 361) compares the MS gen. Tréno, Tréna and suggests reading TRENO, which is possible'.
McManus/1991, 179, note 35: `MacNeill (1909, 361) compares the MS gen. Tréno, Tréna and suggests reading TRENO, which is possible'.