Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:20 Macalister/1949:616 Petrie/1872:169 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 73: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 44. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.76 x 0.56 x 0.12 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | name-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , some A large crack runs up the stone from the bottom for almost half the length of the stone, while some flaking on the right has damaged part of the inscription. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; linear; straight; bifid; plain; none; none; none; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 4: `a small cross fourchee'. Macalister/1949, 44: `Small cross'. |
Petrie, G. (1822): | O~R~DOCHONO | DEN Expansion: OROIT DO CHONODEN Translation: Pray for Conoden (PN). Petrie/1872 73 reading only |
Petrie, G. (1822): | + O~R~DOCHONO | DEN Expansion: + OROIT DO CHONODEN Translation: Pray for Conoden (PN). Petrie/1872 73 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | O~R~DOCHOND | DEN | + Expansion: OROIT DO CHONDDEN Macalister/1909 4--5 reading only Macalister/1949 44 reading only |
Orientation: | Incomplete Information |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; inc ; undivided |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial OR has a contraction mark; the R is majuscule; the Ds have an ascender which bends to the left over the bow, but only the 2nd D has an open bow; the E is closed and below the inscription is a small cross. |
Legibility: | some Most of the text is clear, apart from the H and O, which have been partly flaked away. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |