GRENL/1

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'.

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

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Inscriptions


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Readings

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

Notes

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

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