Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:832 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1949 Macalister, R.A.S. |
History: | Macalister/1949, 68--69: `This slab, when I saw it, was lying in two fragments in the garden of the Rectory, Athlone, during the incumbency of the late Dean Campbell. After his death, the fragments disappeared and their present whereabouts is unknown. The lower half of the stone was even then missing'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1949, missing 1949) |
Location: | Recorded as lost in Macalister/1949, 68--69. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | n/a , n/a Macalister/1949, 68-69, records the now lost stone as having been in two pieces when he saw it. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: inc; interlace; straight; expanded; circular; none; ind; ind; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric ribbon interlace Macalister/1949, 69: `A wheel cross with interlacing ornamentation'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | --] || LACAI || ND Expansion: [OR DO GIL]LA-CAIND Macalister/1949 69 reading only |
Orientation: | circular |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The first five letters of this half-uncial inscription are conjoined. Only the final minuscule N and half-uncial D were not conjoined. This D has a closed rounded bow, much like an O, with a short stroke to the left from the top left side. The two A's have straight strokes on the top and right side of the bows, with a curved stroke to join them, much like on CLMAC/228. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |