| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1907:155 Macalister/1945:60 |
| Site: | BABOR |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1839 Windele, J. |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 62--64: `Windele, in one of his notebooks, has preserved the following...`Inside the enclosure No. 3, four standing stones. One of these is the Ogham No. 1 [BABOR/1]. Twenty yards south of it was a pair of stones, one of which was the Ogham No. II'...The stone perished with the other monuments on the site. Fortunately Hitchcock had previously made a sketch of it, from which Bishop Graves caused a block to be prepared'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
| Setting: | Lost (present 1839, missing 1868) |
| Location: | Macalister/1907, 94, `obliterated some time between 1839 and 1868'. Macalister/1945, 64: `This stone perished with the other monuments on the site'. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | inc , inc |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1907): | MAILAGN[I] Expansion: MAILAGN[I] Macalister/1907 96 reading only Macalister/1945 64 minor reference |
| Orientation: | vertical up |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | name only (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 95, 107. |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | inc Macalister/1945, 64: `This stone perished with the other monuments on the site. Fortunately Hitchcock had previously made a sketch of it, from which Bishop Graves caused a block to be prepared, now in the possession of the Royal Irish Academy (here, with their permission, reproduced); and some efforts at decipherment in the Windele MSS. agree with the lettering as there set out. We may, therefore, accept this consensus of testimony...'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |