MONAI/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:926
Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Monaincha 1
Site:MONAI
Discovery:first mentioned, 1851 Waters, Mr
History:Petrie/1878, 36: `It was found in the year 1851, broken down the centre, in the churchyard at Mona-incha, and is now preserved in the house of the gentleman in whose demesne the ruin stands.

Drawn by M.S. from the stone, in the year 1869. In the year 1851, Mr. Waters, a constable of police in Roscrea, sent Dr. Petrie a drawing of this stone'.

Macalister/1949, 102: `I do not know the present position of the stone, which I have not seen'.

Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 198: `In 1851 this stone was drawn by a Mr Waters, a police constable from Roscrea, who sent the drawing to Petrie. When it was found, the stone was taken to the house of the landowner and was there in 1869 when it was drawn by Stokes ... At some time after this, the middle and left portions went missing. In 1886 William Birch presented the right portion to the British Museum ... This right piece of stone, now in two pieces, was seen and recognised by K[atherine] F[orsyth] in the British Museum store in 1996.'

Geology:
Dimensions:0.59 x 1.245 x 0.085 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001)
Setting:unattch
Location:unknown
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 197: `Part of the stone is in the basement store of the British Museum, reg. No. 86/5-10.1; the additional parts, recorded in the nineteenth century, are now lost'.
Form:body-slab
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 197: `large plain slab'.
Condition:incomplete , poor
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 197--198, make clear that only one section of this stone now survives, moreover `the surface is friable and large patches of varying depth have laminated away taking with them parts of letters'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:

Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 198: `no carving or other decoration'.

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Inscriptions


MONAI/1/1

Readings

Petrie, G. (1869):--]{*}[--]EA | --]RARMAENACH | UAMAE[L]LUGDACH
Expansion:
[O--EA] [O]ROIT AR MAENACH UA MAEL LUGDACH
Translation:
[Unexplained] Pray for Maenach (PN), the descendent of Mael-Lugdach (PN).
Petrie/1878 36, Fig. 49 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):--]O[--]EA | O~R~ARMAENACH | UAMAELLUGDACH
Expansion:
--]O[--]EA OROIT AR MAENACH UA MAEL-LUGDACH
Macalister/1949 102 concise discussion
Okasha and Forsyth (1996):[--][O][--]:E:A | [.RARM]AENACH | [UAMAE]LUGDAC[.]
Expansion:
[--]O[--]:E:A OROIT AR MAENACH UA MAELLUGDACH
Translation:
[--] A prayer for Máenach (PN) úa Máel-Lugdach (PN).
Okasha/Forsyth/2001 199--200 reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:ind ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 198: `The text is incised in three horizontal lines along the long axis of the stone'.
Incision:inc
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 199: `crisply carved'.
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Petrie/1878, 36: `The letters E.A. at the head of this inscription have not been explained'.

Macalister/1949, 102: `A line of writing O......EA has been battered away, apparently part of an earlier epitaph'. [Macalister had not actually seen the stone].

Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 199: `The script is half-uncial with a maximum letter H. 8.5 cm. The lettering is rather square, especially the four-sided form of A'.

CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The ascender of the L, and those on the U, have wedge-shaped finials, while the second A is in the 'OC' form, albeit, like the other As, with an angular bow, also found on MONAI/2. The Es are uncil in form with extended central horizontal strokes. The G is in the 'classic' half-uncial form, and the L is slightly curved. The E of the first line has a single dot on either side.

Legibility:some
Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 199: `The lettering on the surviving piece of stone is crisply carved and legible'.
Lines:3
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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