| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:22 Macalister/1949:618 Petrie/1872:49 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Graves, J. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 29: `Drawn from a rubbing made of the stone by the Rev. James Graves and Mr. William M. Hennessy, in the year 1869'. Macalister/1949, 45, records the stone as still on site. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.32 x 0.27 x 0.04 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | name-slab |
| Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1909, 5: `it is much scaled'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; straight; expanded; plain; none; none; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 5: `A Latin cross pattee, lying on its side'. Macalister/1949, 45: `a small cross pattee'.
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| Petrie, G. (1869): | O~R~ D OBR | ANU CAILL{E}N Expansion: OROIT DO BRAN U CAILLEN Translation: Pray for Bran O'Caillen (PN). Petrie/1872 29 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | + O~R~DO COR | MACAMEN Expansion: OROIT DO CORMAC AMEN Macalister/1909 5 reading only Macalister/1949 45 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; mixed ; undivided If the inscription is vertical then it runs down the stone to the right of the cross, beginning on a level with the cross-bar. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | celtic and latin (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | The use of OR DO indicates goidelic, while the final AMEN is in Latin. |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial OR has a contraction mark; the R is majuscule; the E is three-pronged with an elongated middle stroke, and the A is in the `OC' form. |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1909, 5: `much scaled, and requires considerable patience to decipher, but there is no doubt of this reading'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |