Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:49 |
Site: | BGLAS |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1916 Macalister, R.A.S. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 53, `Nothing is recorded of the history of the stone, except the statement in the [National] Museum Register, that the fragments came from the neighbourhood of Baltinglass'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 53, `granite'. |
Dimensions: | 0.66 x 0.53 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | unattch |
Location: | National Museum, Dublin Macalister/1945, 53: `...now in the National Museum'. Gippert/ Web, Ogham 49, records that the second fragment could not be found in the National Museum in 1988. |
Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 53: `Two fragments...evidently belonging to one stone, but impossible to fit together'. Macalister gives the dimensions of the two fragment seperately: the first is 2' 2" x 1' 9" x 0' 8", the second 2' 2" x 1' 7" x 0' 11". |
Condition: | frgmntry , poor Macalister/1945, 53: `The monument has been intentionally broken up (probably for wall-building), as is evident from a crow-bar mark on one of the fragments'. Gippert/ Web, Ogham 49, records that the second fragment could not be found in the National Museum in 1988. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | --]CCIMAQ[-- Expansion: --]CCIMAQ[-- Macalister/1945 53--54 reading only |
Gippert, J. (1997): | --]CMA[Q][--
Expansion: --]CMA[Q][-- Gippert/Web 1997 reading only [Gippert 1997] |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 54: `...pocked in bold scores'. |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 54: `Only C34 of the first letter remains, C12 being broken away. C3 is also fractured. C4 is prolonged slightly downward, but it cannot be treated as M'. Gippert/Web, Ogham 49: `The remnants at the end rather point to a M-class letter, e.g. R, than a Q. As against Macalister's reading, the C is perfect'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Macalister, R.A.S (1945): | --]INI[-- Expansion: --]INI[-- Macalister/1945 53--54 reading only |
Orientation: | original top of stone |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 54: 'evidently the original top of the stone'. |
Incision: | pocked |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 54: `The lettering is badly injured by spalling'. Gippert/Web, Ogham 49: `No new reading available. Only the first fragment was identifiable when visiting the Dublin NM in 1988'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | yes |