KILMA/1

(the Kilmannin stone)
Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:4
Site:KILMA
Discovery:first mentioned, 1907 Lyons
History:
Geology:Macalister/1945, 6: `stratified sandstone'.
Dimensions:1.22 x 0.51 x 0.3 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in display
Location:National Museum of Ireland
Macalister/1945, 6, records that this stone is now in the National Museum, Dublin.

Gippert/Web, Ogham 4, notes that it is in the basement, and numbered `LXIII'.

Form:plain
Condition:complete , some
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


KILMA/1/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):LUGADDONMAQ ||| IL ||| UGUDEC
Expansion:
LUGADDON MAQI LUGUDEC
Macalister/1945 6--7 concise discussion
McManus, D. (1991):LUGADDONMA[Q] ||| [I]L ||| [U]GUDEC
Expansion:
LUGADDON MA[QI] L[U]GUDEC
McManus/1991 65 reading only
Gippert, J. (1997):LUGADDON[MAQI]LUGUDEC
Expansion:
LUGADDON [MAQI] LUGUDEC
Gippert/Web Ogham 4 substantial discussion [Gippert 4]

Notes

Orientation:vertical up along down
Position:inc ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:incised
Date:500 - 700 (Ziegler/1994)
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 95, 96, 116, 117, 120, 122, 181.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:good
McManus/1991, 79, expresses doubt over the existence of a supplementary character in this inscription.
Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

Names

References


KILMA/1/2     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):DDISIMO ||| [--]CQU[!B]EL
Expansion:
DDISIMO [--]CQU[!B]EL
Macalister/1945 6--7 substantial discussion
Ziegler/1994 253 reading only
Gippert, J. (1987):DDISI M[O]CQUSE[L]
Expansion:
DDISI M[O]CQUSE[L]
Gippert/Web Ogham 4 substantial discussion [Gippert 4]
McManus, D. (1991):DDISIMO ||| [--]CQUSEL
Expansion:
DDISI MO[--]CQU SEL
McManus/1991 65 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up along down
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; inc
Incision:incised
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:none
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 6--7, notes a fracture through the ogham following the seventh character, but adds that for the early elements of the inscription `enough of the inscribed surface is intact, even in the neighbourhood of the fracture'. This cannot be said of its later characters. He notes that the `proximal ends of the C are spalled away', and queries Rhys/1907 on the reading of the antepenultimate letter as an S. Macalister suggests rather a U-forfid. The poor legibililty of the majority of this inscription led him to attempt a retroverse reading, resulting in `nothing..better than Decuns o Micill', which, he suggests, `is worth recording, if only as a warning that nothing is to be expected from this expedient!'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:
Doubtful:no

Names

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