CLMAC/202

Corpus Refs:	Macalister/1909:262 Macalister/1949:798
Site:	CLMAC
Discovery:	first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G.
History:	Petrie/1872, 73: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Macalister/1899, 116, records the stone as lost, as does Macalister/1909, 48, and Macalister/1949, 64.
Geology:
Dimensions:	0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:	Lost (present 1872, missing 1899)
Location:	Recorded as extant in Petrie/1872, 73, and as lost in Macalister/1899, 116. Macalister/1899, 116, records the stone as lost, as does Macalister/1909, 48, and Macalister/1949, 64.
Form:	cross-slab
Condition:	frgmntry , poor
Folklore:	none
Crosses:	none
Decorations:	no other decoration

Inscriptions

Petrie, G. (1822):	O~R~DOAEDM~C~[--] \| M~C~TAIDGHUICELLAICHDO \| RIGHUMANE Expansion: OROIT DO AED MAC [--] MAC TAIDG HUI CELLAICH DO RIG HUMANE Translation: Pray for Aedh (PN)...son of Taidg O'Kelly (PN), for [the] King of Hy-Many. Petrie/1872 73, Plate LXXI, Fig. 170 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909):	O~R~DOAEDM~C~BIBRIA \| M~C~CAIDGHUICELLAICHCA \| RIGHUMANE Expansion: OROIT DO AED MAC BIBRIA MAC [T]AIDG HUI CELLAICH [DO] RIG HUMANE Translation: A prayer for Aed (PN), son of Bibria (?) (PN), son of Tadg (PN), grandson of Ceallach (PN), for the King of Ui Maine. Macalister/1909 48 reading only Macalister/1949 64 reading only

Orientation:	horizontal
Position:	n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:	inc
Date:	1014 - 1014 (Macalister/1949)
Language:	Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:	none
Palaeography:	CISP: The lettering is in Insular half-uncial. The A's are in the 'OC' form and the second B, first G, D, Ls, I's and Hs all appear to have wedge-shaped finials. The initial O is slightly larger than the other letters. The Rs are half-uncial, as are the Gs. The Ds have ascenders which bend to the left over open bows. The Es are in the open uncial form. The Ms are minuscule with rounded top strokes. The first B has a vertical ascender and a closed bow, the second has a curved ascender and an open bow. The Hs are minuscule and the Ls are curved. The N has a cross stroke that runs downward from two thirds of the way up the left ascender to two thirds of the way down the right ascender. Both examples of MC have contraction marks over them for mac.
Legibility:	good Macalister/1949, 64: ``BIBRIA' is written as clearly as it well can be in this unsigned drawing in CIIL, but in the accompanying letterpress it is said to be `so obliterated that it is uncertain what it may have been; it looks very like BRIAN''.
Lines:	3
Carving errors:	0
Doubtful:	no

Aed (Language: Goidelic; Gender: male)
Petrie/1872, 73: `The death of Aedh, son of Tadhg O'Kelly, is thus recorded the Four Masters: - `A.D. 1014. Aedh, son of Tadhg, son of Murchadh Ui Ceallaigh, lord of Ua Main, was slain at Clonmacnois'. It appears that the Danes, after their defeat at the battle of Clontarf, in the year following attacked and burned Clonmacnois; so that it was probably on this occasion, and in defence of the place, that Aedh met his death'.
Taidg Hui Cellaich (Language: Goidelic; Gender: male)
Petrie/1872, 73: `There are twenty-one of this name mentioned by the Four Masters; but one chieftain so called fought at the battle of Clontarf, A.D. 1013, who had a grandson named Aed, child of his son Diarmid'.