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 |
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 |
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 |