Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:246B |
Site: | ARDCT |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1945 Tralee Field Club |
History: | |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.22 x x (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | earliest |
Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 241: `...a pillar stone about 4' high, square in horizontal section: broken in two'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , some Macalister/1945, 241: `...broken in two'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | LMCBLTCL ||| LT | *** Expansion: LMCBLTCL LT *** Macalister/1945 241--242 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | inc ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | scored |
Date: | None published |
Language: | unknown (oghms) |
Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 132. |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 241--242: `The inscription is shown in a diagram overleaf, from which it will be clear that it is of a magical nature, closely analogous to the Glenfahan inscription (183). For comparison the Glenfahan inscription [LMCBDV] is here written at the side (but with the M sloped in the ordinary way, not reversed). Angle ais blank. Angle bbears two scores thus ) ) [corresponding to the two scores of L]: one score thus ( [corresponding to the one score of M]: four scores thus ) ) ( ( [corresponding to the four scores of C]: a B: an L [two scores, corresponding to the two scores of the Glenfahan D]: a T [three scores, corresponding to the three scores of the Glenfahan V]. It then repeats, ) ) ( ( [C], ) ) [L], L [=D], T [=V], the last two letters on the edges of the top of the stone. In the rubbings and photographs sent to me, the B was missing; it is therefore dotted in the copy of the Glenfahan inscription below; but at my request Mr. O'Sullivan and his colleagues made a fresh examination of the fragment, and found the B-score, half of it on one side of the fracture and the other half on the other. This completes the demonstration that the inscriptions, though diverse in outward form, are identical in purport. Angle cis blank. Angle d merely bears a symmetrical arrangement of five scores on one side of the line, five scores on the other, with one crossing score between them. That makes eleven scores, and it may, or may not, be a mere coincidence that the inscription on angle b is longer than the Glenfahan inscription by just eleven scores'. |
Legibility: | some |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |