| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:227 |
| Site: | LMNGH |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1843 Windele, J. |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 221, states that the stone was seen, much as it was in 1945, by Windele in 1843. He gives no information regarding location or circumstances of discovery. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945, 221: `slate'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.93 x 1.19 x 0.28 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in ground |
| Location: | earliest Macalister/1945, 221, gives no information regarding location. |
| Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 221: `An upright slab of slate'. |
| Condition: | complete , inc |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | OTTINNMAQIVEC[R-- Expansion: OTTINN MAQI VECR[EC] Macalister/1945 221--222 reading only Ziegler/1994 271 listing |
| McManus, D. (1991): | OTTINNMAQIVEC[RE.] Expansion: OTTINN MAQI VEC[REG] Expansion: OTTINN MAQI VEC[REC] McManus/1991 104 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 221: `bearing an inscription cut, not as usual, on an edge, but on a vertical (imaginary) stemline between the central axis and the dexter edge of one of the broad faces'. McManus/1991, 47, provides a discussion on the layout of oghams noting the unusualness of this layout. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 550 - 900 (Ziegler/1994) Dating based on linguistic discussion of the name (Ziegler/1994, 219; zietstufe III--IV). |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | McManus/1991, 96, lists this stone in his section on syncope. |
| Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 221: `A flake has been spalled from the end, which would just give room for the restoration suggested, here borrowed from a notebook of bishop Graves, now in the R.I.A. Library: the lower tips of R123 remain. The vowels are circular conical depressions, which look like drill holes, and the whole inscription has an appearance of freshness about it, which might easily arouse the suspicion that it had been re-cut by some well meaning person; a needless suspicion, however, for a note of Windele's shows that it must have presented the same appearance as it does now, when he saw it in 1843'. |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 221: `the whole inscription has an appearance of freshness about it'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
McManus/1991, 104: `VEC[REG/C] (Fíachri)'.