| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:162 Macalister/1949:716 Petrie/1872:130 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 60: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois in 1822'. Macalister/1909, 32, argues that the stone had been substantially damaged since Petrie saw it. Macalister/1949, 55, records the stone as still on site. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.58 x 0.51 x 0.05 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | incomplete , good The lower left quadrant is the only one still intact. The upper right is completely lost, while only small portions of the upper left and lower right remain. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; other; circular; none; inner curv; none; decorated |
| Decorations: | geometric key pattern; geometric other Macalister/1909, 32: `three line cross...the centre contains a knot and the [triangular] terminals a well-drawn key-pattern'. Macalister/1949, 55: `Cross with triangular expansions at the ends containing a hybrid key-and-interlacing rectilinear pattern, and in the centre an ordinary fret'. |
| Petrie, G. (1822): | O~R~ D || OMAELFIN | NIA Expansion: OROIT DO MAELFINNIA Translation: Pray for Maelfinnia (PN). Petrie/1872 60 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | [O~R~ D || O MA]ELFIN | [NI]A Expansion: [OROIT DO MA]ELFIN[NI]A Macalister/1909 32 reading only Macalister/1949 55 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription is in two lines running down through the two quadrants. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 991 - 992 (Petrie/1872) 992 - 1056 (Lionard/1961) |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial OR has a contraction mark over it; the R's are majuscule; the D is closed-bowed; the 1st A is in the `OC' form; the E is closed; the L has a wedge-shaped finial atop its ascender and the F is half-uncial. |
| Legibility: | some Of the letters which survive the two on the extreme left are fragmentary. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
Lionard/1961, 166, partially accepts this identification, but suggests another possibility might be the Maolfinden, who is recorded as dying in the Annals of the Four Masters under the year AD 1056.