CLMOR/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:15
Site:CLMOR
Discovery:first mentioned, 1945 Macalister, R.A.S.
History:
Geology:
Dimensions:0.71 x 0.23 x 0.22 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Macalister/1945, 18: `the stone stands beside the grave of a certain W. Murphy'.

Gippert/Web, however, is unsure of its precise location, and whilst providing photographs of what he believes to be Macalister 15, comments that although this, `may well be the stone...[this] cannot be verified unless the stone is dug up'.

Form:plain
Macalister/1945, 18: `pillar stone'.
Condition:inc , inc
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


CLMOR/1/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):--]RENI
Expansion:
[MAQIT]RENI
Macalister/1945 18 reading only
Ziegler/1994 254 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up
Position:SE ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:400 - 550 (Ziegler/1994)
Language:name only (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:none
Legibility:poor
Macalister/1945, 18, noted the faintness of the ogham letters: `they are much worn, and clogged with lichen…[the first two strokes of] R are lost by the fracture, and the I is broken and hard to recognise'.

Gippert/Web, Ogham 15, offers no reading: `There are hardly any Ogham scores recognizable'.

Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

Names

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