BAKNK/10

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1907:172
Macalister/1945:91
Site:BAKNK
Discovery:non-arch dig, 1891 Barry, E.
History:Macalister/1907, 108: `first brought to knowledge through the exertions of the late Father Barry, who, after describing them, had them buried again where they were found. They were afterwards re-exhumed, however, by Mrs Donovan's sons'.

Macalister/1945, 90: `This stone was left behind at Ballyknock'.

Geology:
Dimensions:1.24 x 0.0 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:inc
Location:inc
Macalister/1945, 90--91: `This stone was left behind at Ballyknock; I have no information as to its present whereabouts, and have, therefore, had no recent opportunity of checking the reading'.

Power et al/1994, 60, records that after its discovery in the souterrain this stone was `taken to Lismore Castle'.

Form:Incomplete Information
Condition:inc , inc
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


BAKNK/10/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1907):BLOTEGSI
Expansion:
BLOTEGSI
Macalister/1907 117--118 reading only
Ziegler/1994 259 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):BLATEGSI
Expansion:
BLATEGSI
Macalister/1945 90--91 reading only
Ziegler/1994 259 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Incomplete Information
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:name only (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:none
Legibility:inc
Macalister/1945, 91: `When I saw the stone on my early visit to Ballyknock, I made BLOTEGSI, which appears also to have been the reading of Rhys: but Barry...notes that the extra notch `was not on the stone when in the cave, or when being unearthed', it was first seen `on the next day after a stranger had been checked for turning an inscribed stone with a crowbar'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

Names

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