Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:250 |
Site: | COBOY |
Discovery: | recognised, 1945 Hitchcock, R. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 244: `found by Hitchcock in the inner chamber of a souterrain in which it formed one of the roofing stones; afterwards moved to a site in front of the police barrack (now a farmhouse) on the townland of Keel'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.83 x 0.0 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | unattch |
Location: | other Macalister/1945, 244: ` in front of the police barrack (now a farmhouse) on the townland of Keel'. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | inc , inc |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | CATTUVVIRRMAQIRIT ||| [UVVE] ||| CASMUCOIALLATO Expansion: CATTUVVIRR MAQI RITUVVECAS MUCOI ALLATO Macalister/1945 244 reading only Ziegler/1994 273 reading only |
McManus, D. (1991): | CATTUVVIRRMAQIRIT ||| TAVVE ||| CASMUCOIALLATO Expansion: CATTUVVIRR MAQI RITTAVVECAS MUCOI ALLATO McManus/1991 67 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up along down |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 466 - 533 (McManus/1991) See McManus/1991, 88, 94. 500 - 700 (Ziegler/1994) See Ziegler/1994, 147--148, 226. |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 94, 102, 116, 117, 125, 176. |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 244: `The B-halves of the R's at the end of the first word are very faint, and at first sight there would seem to be justification for Brash's reading Cattuvviqq. But -RR is correct'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |