| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:947 |
| Site: | CONOR |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1884 O'Laverty, J. |
| History: | Macalister/1949, 115: `Formerly in the collection of Canon Broughshane: now in the City Museum, Belfast. It is believed to have come from somewhere in Co. Armagh but the site from which it was conveyed is unrecorded'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.91 x 0.48 x 0.17 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | Ulster Museum According to Hamlin/2001, 53, the stone is now in the Ulster Museum. |
| Form: | plain Macalister/1949, 115: `a stone block'. |
| Condition: | complete , some Hamlin/2001, 53: `The stone is battered and abraded'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | FRATRESORENT{P}NOBISOGRECHUETUGEN Expansion: FRATRES ORENT PRO NOBIS OGRECHU ET UGEN Macalister/1949 115 reading only |
| Hamlin, A. (2001): | FRATRES ORENT P~ NOBIS [-- Expansion: FRATRES ORENT PRO NOBIS [-- Translation: May the brothers pray for us [--]. Hamlin/2001 53 reading only |
| Orientation: | Incomplete Information |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated Hamlin/2001, 53: `the inscription runs in a single line along the stone'. |
| Incision: | inc Macalister/1949, 115: `lightly scratched'. |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Latin (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Hamlin/2001, 53--54: `The word FRATRES indicates a community of some kind, and the subjunctive form ORENT suggests the translation `may the brothers pray for us''. |
| Palaeography: | Macalister/1949, 115: `in half uncials'. CISP: A half-uncial inscription. The first S, the first I and the two final U's all have wedge-shaped finials. The Os are spherical rather than round, each of the Rs are different, with differing bows, and 'feet', the two examples of S also differ, while three types of E can also be seen in this text. Open-bowed B, with a heart-shaped bow and a hal-uncial G , along with flat-bottomed U's and the common Insular abbreviation for PRO can also be seen. |
| Legibility: | some Hamlin/2001, 53: `only the first four words are clear .. Macalister read OGRECHU ET UNGEN [sic] as the second half of the inscription, but I could only detect a few letters, certainly not enough for a confident reading'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | |
| Doubtful: | no |