| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:877 Petrie/1878:67 |
| Site: | GLEND |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1804 Ledwich |
| History: | Macalister/1949, 81: `Formerly at the Refert Church on the shore of the Upper Lake...it was smashed to fragments and sold piecemeal by guides to souvenir-hunters'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
| Setting: | Lost (present 1830, missing 1878) |
| Location: | Petrie/1878, 60, records that the stone was drawn by Petrie between 1820 and 1830, but that by 1878, `the whole has dissappeared'. Petrie/1878, 60, records that the stone was drawn by Petrie between 1820 and 1830, but that by 1878, 'the whole has disappeared'. Macalister/1949, 81: `Formerly at the Refert Church on the shore of the Upper Lake...it was smashed to fragments and sold piecemeal by guides to souvenir-hunters'. |
| Form: | cross-slab Macalister/1949, 81: `It was an oblong, rectangular slab, of the 11th century'. |
| Condition: | incomplete , n/a Macalister/1949, 81: `An absurd misreading of the inscription, published in 1804, popularised the notion that this was the gravestone of the `King O'Toole', who figures in local tourist gossip. In consequence, it was smashed to fragments and sold piecemeal by guides to souvenir-hunters'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; inc; ind; half-round; circular; inc; none; none; inc |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 81: `a Latin three-line cross with a circular and semi-circular expansion at the centre and the terminals respectively. They bore no ornamental device'. |
| Petrie, G. (1830): | O~R~DO || CORPREMACCATH | NNT~ [..]C~I~D || AIL Expansion: OROIT DO CORPRE MAC CATHAIL NNT~ [..] C~I~D Translation: Pray for Corpre (PN), son of Cathal (PN). Petrie/1878 59--60, Plate XXXII reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | ORDO || CORPREMACCATH A~[W~]IHSXPS || AIL Expansion: OROIT DO CORPRE MAC CATHAIL A~ W~ IHS XPS Macalister/1949 81 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated Macalister/1949, 81: `The inscription ran down the dexter side of the stem of the cross'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 1014 - 1014 (Lionard/1961) 1013 - 1013 (Macalister/1949) 1013 - 1013 (Petrie/1878) |
| Language: | celtic and latin (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Petrie/1878, 59: `This is one of the few inscriptions where the name of the father of the person interred is also mentioned, and it is a matter of great interest that these names can be identified'. |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The drawing provided in Petrie/1878, Plate XXXII does not encourage trust in its details. Nonetheless there are a number of examples of A's with squarish bows, a closed minuscule E and a D with an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow. |
| Legibility: | inc |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |