Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:924 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 34 |
Site: | TOURP |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1909 Crawford, H.S. |
History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 279: `In 1909 this stone was lying `loose ... on the circular wall', that is, of the `cell' ... In 1912 Crawford ... Described it as being in the same place but he may not have revisited the site. Macalister [/1949, 101] recorded the stone at the `clochán', that is, the `cell', and it has now been built on to its wall'. |
Geology: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.43 x 0.24 x 0.9 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
Setting: | in struct |
Location: | on site Macalister/1949, 101: `Lying...on a masonry table (not an altar) against the West end of the Oratory, beside the entrance-door'. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 279: `The stone is built sideways on top of the small enclosure, known as the `cell', in the field to the south-east of the church'. |
Form: | cross-slab Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 279: `The stone is part of a slab of unknown form'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , some |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; plain; plain; none; none; none; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 101: `Cross'. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 279: `Incised on the face of the stone is an outline equal-armed cross'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | BAEDAN Expansion: BAEDAN Macalister/1949 101 reading only |
Okasha and Forsyth (1996): | [--][.]AED CU[.][-- Expansion: [--]BAEDCU[.][-- Okasha/Forsyth/2001 280 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 279: `a horizontal line of text above [the cross]'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 280: `likely to have been a personal name in the nominative case'. |
Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 280: `The text is in half-uncial script'. CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The A is in the 'OC' form. The D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open angular bow. The U is flat-bottomed and the E is capitalis. For a list of the other examples of this E from Toureen Peacaun see TOURP/39. |
Legibility: | some Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 280: `rather deteriorated. .. Only a small part of the letter before the A is now visible but the drawing mentioned above suggests that it was a B. Following the U there is the lower part of a vertical stroke which could be part of an I, N, M or similar letter. The gap between it and the U seems rather large in comparison with the spacing of the other letters and this stroke is not shown on the drawing mentioned above'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |