Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:188 Macalister/1949:735 Petrie/1872:100 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 49: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Macalister/1909, 36--37, records the stone as still on site and states that `the bottom of the stone was broken in Petrie's time and has lost another portion since'. Macalister/1949, 57, records the stone as still on site. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.62 x 0.38 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site Macalister/1949, 57, records the stone as still on site. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , poor Macalister/1909, 36--37: `the bottom of the stone was broken in Petrie's time, and has lost another portion since'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; ind; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric key pattern Macalister/1909, 36: `A three-line cross with the usual expansions. The centre contains an imitation of the divergent spiral patterns...the terminals contain key-patterns of very peculiar type, most difficult to decipher'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | O~R~ || DOCH[O--] | IN || GORMAI[.] Expansion: OROIT DO CHO[--] IN GORMAI[-- Petrie/1872 49 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | O~R~ || D[OCHO] | UI || GOR[MAIN] Expansion: OROIT D[O CHO--] UI GOR[MAIN] Macalister/1909 36--37, Plate XXVIII reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | O~R~ || DO[CHO] | UI || GOR[MAIN] Expansion: OROIT DO [CHO--] UI GOR[MAIN] Macalister/1949 57, Plate XIX reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 1059 - 1060 (Macalister/1949) 924 - 924 (Petrie/1872) |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in Insular half-uncial. The initial OR has a contraction mark over it, and the R is majuscule. The D has a rounded bow and a short leftwards bending ascender. The U has a rounded bottom; the G is half-uncial and the second R is majuscule. |
Legibility: | some |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Macalister/1949, 57: `This is very probably the memorial of Conn na mBocht, the famous bishop and anchorite of Clonmacnois d. A.D. 1059 or 1060'.