Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:189 |
Site: | KINET |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1849 Graves, C. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 182, cites C. Graves as the first recorder of the stone in 1849. Cuppage et al/1986, 328, records the stone as now `lying prostrate in the NW part of the graveyard'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 182: `grit'. |
Dimensions: | 1.8 x 0.52 x 0.16 (Cuppage/etal/1986) |
Setting: | on ground |
Location: | on site Cuppage et al/1986, 328, records the stone as now `lying prostrate in the NW part of the graveyard'. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | complete , some |
Folklore: | Macalister/1945, 183, records the story `that if two children born of the same mother, with no other children between, were kept without speaking until they were nine years of age, and then put into Kinard graveyard, they would speak the language of these inscriptions'. |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | SAGWTILLOTETIAVISRUSA Expansion: SAGWTI LLOTETI AVI SRUSA Cuppage/etal/1986 328 reading only Macalister/1945 183 reading only |
McManus, D. (1986): | ACURCITIVEVODDIUNGWAC Expansion: A CURCITI VEVODDIUGWAC McManus/1986 21 reading only |
Orientation: | Incomplete Information |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; mixed ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 183: `on the dexter edge and top. I begins, exceptionally, at the top, and reads downward'. McManus/1986, 21, reads the stone from the bottom up. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 182: `inscription much worn'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |