| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:27 Macalister/1949:623 Petrie/1872:43 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 27: `this stone was found by Dr Petrie in the year 1822, lying loose at the east end of the churchyard at Clonmacnois'. Macalister/1949, 45: `The stone was perfect in Petrie's time; it has since then been broken into pieces, of which only two are now to be found'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.29 x 0.15 x 0.04 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | name-slab |
| Condition: | frgmntry , poor Macalister/1909, 6: `this is evidently the surviving fragment of a slab which Petrie found almost complete...the now missing portion has completely disapppeared.' Macalister/1949, 45: `The stone was perfect in Petrie's time; it has since then been broken into pieces, of which only two are now to be found'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; straight; bifid; plain; none; none; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 6: `Fragment of a cross with crescent-shaped forked ends'. Macalister/1949, 45: `Cross with bifid ends'.
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| Petrie, G. (1822): | COLLÁN Expansion: COLLÁN Macalister/1909 6 reading only Macalister/1949 45 reading only Petrie/1872 27 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial and the A, which is in the `OC' form has an accent over it. The Ls are curved. |
| Legibility: | good Only the final N now survives. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |