DNBUL/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:62
Site:DNBUL
Discovery:first mentioned, 1897 Macalister, R.A.S.
History:Macalister/1897, 98, first records the stone, while Macalister/1945, 65, states that the stone `stands in the middle of a field at a road-fork opposite the old church and cemetery'.
Geology:Macalister/1945, 65: `reddish clay-slate'.
Dimensions:1.3 x 0.71 x 0.25 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Macalister/1945, 65, states that the stone `stands in the middle of a field at a road-fork opposite the old church and cemetery'.
Form:plain
Condition:inc , some
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):DOCRANORI
Expansion:
DOCRANORI
Macalister/1945 65--66 reading only
Ziegler/1994 256 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up
Position:inc ; arris ; inc ; undecorated
Macalister/1945, 65: `inscription apparently chiselled on the dexter angle of the southern face'.
Incision:incised
Macalister/1945, 65: `apparently chiselled'.
Date:None published
Language:name only (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:none
Legibility:poor
Macalister/1945, 65--66: `worn almost to illegibility by cattle...The H-half of 2R is spalled away'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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