| Corpus Refs: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Monaincha 5 |
| Site: | MONAI |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1964 inc |
| History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 209: `it was first recorded in 1964 when it was in the NMI. A file record sheet, FILE IA/192/64 was then made by the museum, and the three fragments were photographed. The file record states that the fragments had been found `in various places in the early church site of ... Monaincha' and were mounted on the wall of the church at Monaincha. In October 1964 the fragments were removed from the Museum by the OPW ad by 1983 were in the depot in Kilkenny where they remain'. |
| Geology: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 209: `Old Red Sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.445 x 0.58 x 0.04 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | other Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 209: `The fragments are now in the Duchás depot at Kilkenny'. |
| Form: | other Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 209: `plain slab'. |
| Condition: | frgmntry , poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 209: `What survives are three contiguous fragments of a large slab, two of which have been stuck together. The uper edge of the largest fragment may be original, but none of the others is'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 209: `There is no carving apart from the text'. |
| Okasha and Forsyth (1999): | [--][.]C~S~ AE[.][-- Expansion: [--] SANCTUS AE[.][--] Okasha/Forsyth/2001 210 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 209: `The incomplete text is incised in one horizontal line across the fragments of stone. The large space above the text suggests that no line of text was lost from there. It is not clear how much text was lost from each end, nor whether there were originally further lines of text below the existing line'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Latin (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 210: `The letters CS are an abbreviation, or part of an abbreviation, perhaps [s]c~s~, the standard abbreviation of s(an)c(tu)s `saint', found in the genitive case s~c~i~ on a slab from Kilbrecan, Aran Mór [Macalister/1949, no. 531, KBRCN/1]'. |
| Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 210: `The script used is half-uncial with a four-sided form of A'. CISP: The lettering is half uncial. The S is in the capitalis form, the A, like those on MONAI/1 and MONAI/2 is angular and almost square- or lozenge-shaped. The E is in the open uncial form with an extended central horizontal stroke. The final letter could be a curved T, a D with an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow, or perhaps a C with an abbreviation mark over it. This last is least likely. |
| Legibility: | some Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 210: `The lettering on all three pieces is damaged but legible'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |