| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:136 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Ardfert 1 |
| Site: | ARDFE |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1945 Macalister, R.A.S. |
| History: | |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945, 132: `Micaceous grit'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.22 x 0.3 x 0.28 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in ground |
| Location: | other Macalister/1945, 132: `Formerly in the middle of a field opposite the Protestant church: now moved into the graveyard surrounding the ruined cathedral, where it stands just opposite the entrance stile'. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | inc , some |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | CT[A]N[--] ||| QLOG[-- Expansion: CT[A]N QLOG Macalister/1945 132--133 reading only |
| McManus, D. (1991): | [CTN][--][QLA] McManus/1991 66 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up along down |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 132: `inscription pocked in bold scores, but rendered unintelligible by someone who has chamfered most of it away'. |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 132--133: `The C, which has lost its distal ends, is the first letter of which any trace remains. After the T there is room for one (or at most two) notches, and then follow the distal ends of N, the proximal ends being spalled away. The rest of the letters on the dexter angle and the top have been lost with a large flake broken off from the B-surface. Before the Q there is a fracture which might be A, but this is improbable, as it is too insignificant in comparison with the bold notches of the O following - the only vowel of the inscription which survives. In any case we may not think of MAQ, for there is enough unbroken surface remaining in the appropriate place to preserve some part of the M score if it had ever been there. If there was a relation-word in the inscription it must have been AVI; but no attempt at restoration can be put forward with any assurance. Below the (now final) G the whole of the B-surface has been broken away, with all the remaining letters (including the B-half of G2)'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |