BAKNK/5

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:86
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, 85: `Afterwards under the influence of Rev. Canon Power...removed to University College, Cork'.

Geology:Macalister/1945, 86: `Stratified grit'.
Dimensions:1.17 x 0.33 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in display
Location:University College, Cork
In University College, Cork, according to Macalister/1945, 85.
Form:plain
Condition:inc , inc
Macalister/1945, 86: `chipped here and there'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):CLIUCOANA ||| S | MAQI MAQITREN ||| I
Expansion:
CLIUCOANAS MAQI MAQI-TRENI
Macalister/1907 111 concise discussion
Macalister/1945 86--87 concise discussion
Ziegler/1994 258 reading only
McManus, D. (1991):CLIUC[O]ANA ||| S | MAQIMAQIT[R]E[N] ||| [I]
Expansion:
CLIUC[O]ANAS MAQI MAQIT[R]E[NI]
McManus/1991 66 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up up
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Macalister/1945, 86, notes that the inscription `...is on two angles, not adjacent, but diametrically opposed'.
Incision:pocked
Macalister/1945, 86: `...pocked in rather bold scores'.
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 102, 109.
Palaeography:McManus/1991, 8, argues that `too wide a gap between scores' was left by the carver with the result that the reading appears as `CLIOCOANAS' instead of the intended -CUNAS.
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 86; `The last word is not so clear as the rest, as its notches are lost in the rather wide cleavage of the planes of the stratification'.
Lines:2
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:yes

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