| Corpus Refs: | Cuppage/etal/1986:699 Macalister/1945:184 |
| Site: | GORGH |
| Discovery: | in/on structure, 1853 Hitchcock, R. |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 177: `Found by Hitchcock, acting as a lintel on the doorway of a beehive hut in a half-erased fort, and removed by him in 1853 to the Royal Irish Academy Museum'. Cuppage et al/1986, 226: `A cross-inscribed ogham stone formerly acted as a lintel over the doorway to a D-shaped clochaun which stood within the enclosure. This was removed by Hitchcock and presented to the Royal Irish Academy, along with the quernstone also found at the site. The ogham stone is now preserved in the NMI'. |
| Geology: | Cuppage/etal/1986, 226: `sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.9 x 0.27 x 0.1 (Cuppage/etal/1986) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | National Museum of Ireland Cuppage et al/1986, 226: `The ogham stone is now preserved in the NMI'. |
| Form: | cross-marked Cuppage et al/1986, 226: `A roughly rectangular...slab'. |
| Condition: | complete , some |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; linear; straight; plain; plain; none; none; none; n/a 2: equal-armed; linear; straight; plain; plain; none; none; none; n/a |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1945, 177--178: `On each broad face there is a plain equal-armed cross, pocked -- contrasting in technique with the chisel-cut inscription, and, therefore, presumably a later addition'. Cuppage et al/1986, 226: `A simple Greek cross is inscribed on each face of the stone'. McManus/1991, 54, lists this as an example where the cross may be later than the inscription due to the differences in cutting technique. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | MAQQIDECEDDA | MAQQICATUV[!U][Q--] Expansion: MAQQI-DECEDDA MAQQI CATUV[IQQA] Cuppage/etal/1986 226 minor reference Macalister/1945 178 reading only |
| Cuppage, J. (1986): | MAQQIDECEDDA | MAQQICATUV[-- Expansion: MAQQI-DECEDDA MAQQI CATUV[-- Cuppage/etal/1986 226 reading only |
| McManus, D. (1991): | MAQQIDECEDDA | MAQQI CATUV[..] Expansion: MAQQI-DECEDDA MAQQI CATUV[IR] Expansion: MAQQI-DECEDDA MAQQI CATUV[EC] McManus/1991 102, 122 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up up |
| Position: | ind ; arris ; beside cross ; undivided Macalister/1945, 177: `Inscription on two angles (up-up)'. Cuppage et al/1986, 226: `The inscription is carved along two edges of one face'. |
| Incision: | cut Macalister/1945, 177--178: `On each broad face there is a plain equal-armed cross, pocked -- contrasting in technique with the chisel-cut inscription, and, therefore, presumably a later addition'. |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | McManus/1991, 94--95, lists this inscription amongst the `earliest post-apocope inscriptions' which `show a variety of fluctuation with regard to the retention or loss of final consonants or syllables'. In this case the dropping of -S from DECEDDA. |
| Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 178: `The end of the second name is broken, and 3I45, the proximal ends of the scores of 5Q, and the final QA are lost. But the decipherment cannot be doubted. The DECEDDA is sometimes spelt with a doubled C and the engraver intended to do so in this case. But on revising his work he discovered that he had left out the preceding E. He was, therefore, obliged to chip away the first C, (which he did very neatly) and substitute the missing vowel'. Cuppage et al/1986, 226: `The V is followed by 3 vowel notches but beyond this the stone is damaged and no definite scores are preserved. There is no consensus amongst earlier researchers as to the termination of the final word'. |
| Legibility: | some CISP: Authorities agree on the inscription except for the last few letters which are damaged. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 1 |
| Doubtful: | no |