| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:23 Macalister/1949:619 Petrie/1872:53 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 31: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822.' Macalister/1949, 45, records the stone as still on site. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.9 x 0.58 x 0.12 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | name-slab |
| Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1949, 45: `the surface of the stone is pocked at the beginning of the second line of writing, evidently to remove a first cutting of the cross (still traceable), which had been set in a place afterwards found inconvenient'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; straight; expanded; plain; cruciform; none; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 5: `a very delicately incised Latin cross pattee enclosed in a marginal line'. |
| Petrie, G. (1822): | O~R~DODUB | LITIR Expansion: OROIT DO DUBLITIR Translation: Pray for Dublitir (PN). Macalister/1909 5 reading only Macalister/1949 45 reading only Petrie/1872 31 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; below cross ; undivided |
| Incision: | inc Macalister/1909, 5: `this slab is a model of neat and careful engraving'. |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial and the initial OR has a contraction mark; the bows of the Ds and the B are heart-shaped, while the second O is verging on lozenge-shaped and the ascenders of the B and L have wedge-shaped finials. Macalister/1949, 45, argues that the pocked area is the result of a cross being removed from the stone. |
| Legibility: | good The inscription is clear. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 1 |
| Doubtful: | no |