| Corpus Refs: | Cuppage/etal/1986:831 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Coumduff 1 |
| Site: | COUMD |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1939 Scannell, P. |
| History: | Cuppage/etal/1986, 280: `An inscribed stone fragment from the site was presented to U[niversity] C[ollege] C[ork] in 1939 but its present whereabouts is not known'. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 145: `The stone was found at Coumduff by Patrick Scannel at some time before 1939 and was given to O'Connell during his work on the Kerry Archaeological Survey ... It was presented to University College Cork by James Carroll of Abbeydorney, Co Kerry, in 1938-39: it is listed amongst those items presented to the Museum of University College Cork in the twelve months preceding 1 june 1939, a list signed by Seán P. Ó Ríordáin, the Professor of Archaeology (document preserved in the College Archives. The whereabouts of the stone was said to be `not known' in 1986 ... Enquiries around University College Cork have failed to elicit either the stone or any further account of it'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.13 x 0.1 x 0.07 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
| Setting: | Lost (present , missing ) |
| Location: | unknown Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 145: `The stone is now lost'. |
| Form: | fragment Cuppage/etal/1986, 280: `An inscribed stone fragment'. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 145: `small fragment of a slab'. |
| Condition: | frgmntry , n/a |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| O'Connell, D.B. (1939): | [.][.][.][.] Expansion: [.][.][.][.] Cuppage/etal/1986 280 reading only OConnell/1939 45--46 reading only |
| Okasha and Forsyth (2001): | [--][.][A][--] | [--][.][A][-- Expansion: [--][.][A][--][.][A][-- Okasha/Forsyth/2001 146 reading only |
| Orientation: | Not Applicable |
| Position: | n/a ; n/a ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Indeterminate (n/a) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 146: `uncertain what script was used. ... O'Connell described the first two letters as `"a"-like figures' and saw traces of what might have been a third ... From his illustration, a reading -aa- or -ga- seems possible but it is hard to discern a third letter. O'Connell described the letters of the lower line as `resembling ... those of some early Greek alphabets ... and his illustration shows what could be a reversed R and a lamda-shape. However these could equally well be read as -ba-, or indeed -ra-, in either case with the first letter reversed. In view of these uncertainties, and with the stone now lost, no text is now recoverable'. |
| Legibility: | n/a Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 146: `None of the letters are clearly legible'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |