Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:26 |
Site: | DNMOR |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1902 Fitzgerald, W. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 30, records that the stone was moved from the old church of Donaghmore, near Carton, and thence, `to Carton demesne, and afterwards to its present situation in the National Museum'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.76 x 0.36 x 0.23 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in display |
Location: | National Museum, Dublin Macalister/1945, 30, notes that the stone is in the National Museum. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | complete , good |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | NETTAVRECC ||| [KOI]MAQIMUCCOITRENALUGGO Expansion: NETTAVRECC [KOI] MAQI MUCCOI TRENALUGGO Macalister/1945 30--31 reading only Ziegler/1994 254 reading only |
McManus, D. (1991): | NETTAVROICC || [KOI]MAQIMUCCOITRENALUGGO Expansion: NETTAVROICC [KOI] MAQI MUCCOI TRENALUGGO McManus/1991 66 concise discussion |
McManus, D. (1991): | NETTAVROECC||| [KOI]MAQIMUCCOITRENALUGGO Expansion: NETTAVROECC [KOI] MAQI MUCCOI TRENALUGGO McManus/1991 66 reading only |
Orientation: | Incomplete Information |
Position: | inc ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc Macalister/1945, 30: `The inscription is scratched in fine lines'. |
Date: | 550 - 900 (Ziegler/1994) |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 109--110, 121. |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | good Macalister/1945, 30--31: `1N, 9" from the bottom of the stone is faint. 2E34, as well as the proximal ends of the the two C's following, are carried away, with a detached spall (there is hardly room for Rhys' restoration of the vowel, OI): the final vowel is also lost by flaking. On the second angle MAQI MUCCOI TREN- is plain, though the vowels are faint: but after the N a detached flake has carried away the whole of the B-surface'. McManus/1991, 79, finds Macalister's restoration of the phrase KOI `doubtful'. He is also critical of Macalister's reading elsewhere (McManus/1991, 66): `Of the second E in Macalister's NETTAVRECC only the first two notches are visible and it appears to me that there was enough space remaining for an E or an I, which would give a more plausible reading VROECC or VROICC. Macalister's sketch is more accurate than the accompanying reading with regard to the last name on the inscription'. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
McManus/1991, 110: `NETTA-VRECC (possibly -VROECC or -VROICC ... all may be variants of an expected *NETA(S)-VROIC(I), (Nad-Froích)'.