Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:107 Macalister/1949:674 Petrie/1872:39 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Graves, J. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 26, records that the stone was drawn `by the Rev. James Graves and Mr. Hennessy, at Clonmacnois, in 1869'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 50. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.34 x 0.2 x 0.13 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | frgmntry , poor Only the top arm of the cross and the upper sinister quadrant remain. The remainder is lost. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: inc; outline; straight; expanded; ind; none; inner curv; ind; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909: `top of a probably quadrate Celtic cross'. Macalister/1949, 50: `Top of a wheel cross'. |
Petrie, G. (1869): | OR~DO | VAD || A Expansion: OROIT DO UADA Translation: Pray for Uada (PN). Petrie/1872 26 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | O~R~DO | VAD || A Expansion: OROIT DO VADA Macalister/1909 22 reading only Macalister/1949 50 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; mixed ; separated The inscription , as we have it, is in the upper left quadrant, and on the upper arm of the cross. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 826 - 828 (Lionard/1961) |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial OR has a contraction mark over it; the R is majuscule; the V is particularly open with the right-hand stroke having a curved extension; the 1st A is angular and four-sided and the 2nd angular and three-sided; the second D has a vertical ascender with a finial and an open bow. |
Legibility: | some The top of the last two letters on the first line have been lost. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Lionard/1961, 160, accepts this identification.