| Corpus Refs: | none |
| Site: | ARDF1 |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1995 Moore, F. |
| History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 133: `The inscription was first recognised by Fionnbarr Moore during his OPW excavations at the neighbouring cathedral'. |
| Geology: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 134: `a distinctive grainy red sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.095 x 0.25 x 0.03 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
| Setting: | in struct |
| Location: | on site Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 133: `The inscribed block is built into the interior face of the choir arch of the ruined Romanesque structure of Templenahoe, Ardfert. It is in an inverted position, against the corner with the south wall, its lower edge 1.6 m above the current ground level'. |
| Form: | other Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 133--134: `an architectural feature, a twelfth-century voussoir, re-used in the late twelfth-century church. .. The slightly curving long edges and wedge-shaped short edges indicate that the piece served as a voussoir, the component block of an arch'. |
| Condition: | frgmntry , good Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 133: `a small portion of a longer text'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Okasha and Forsyth (1996): | [--]A{F}OGAR[.][--] Expansion: [--U]A F(H)OGAR[TACH][-- Translation: [--] descendent of Fhógar[tach] (PN) Okasha/Forsyth/2001 134 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 134: `The text is incised in a single horizontal line along the long axis of the stone and covers most of the visible surface'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 1100 - 1190 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 135--136, argue for a twelfth-century date for the inscription, which was incorporated into a building some time before 1190. |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 134: `There is a well-formed dot above the F which appears intentional and is doubtless intended as the punctum delens, the regular indication of lenition of F and S in manuscripts from the Old Irish period onwards. ... The initial A is most plausibly interpreted as the final letter of ua `descendent of' causing lenition of the following f'. |
| Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 134: `The text uses half-uncial script and the maximum letter H. is 4 cm. ... The indication of lenition by the use of a punctum delens is unusual in epigraphy'. |
| Legibility: | some Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 134: `All the letters are damaged: the first lacks its left edge and the remaining ones have each lost at least part of their upper edge, the outer third of the visible surface of the stone having de-laminated'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |