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 |
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 |
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 |