GRANG/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:269
Site:GRANG
Discovery:first mentioned, 1883 Atkinson, G.M.
History:Macalister/1945, 265, credits one G.M. Atkinson with first publishing this stone and states that it is `prostrate in the old cemetery of Grange when I first saw it in 1901, but later (1938) set upright in the ground at the west end of the enclosure to mark a modern grave'.

McManus/1991, 49, in discussing the reuse of these stones, notes the use of this one as a modern grave marker.

Geology:
Dimensions:1.07 x 0.38 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in ground
Location:on site
Macalister/1945, 265: `prostrate in the old cemetery of Grange when I first saw it in 1901, but later (1938) set upright in the ground at the west end of the enclosure to mark a modern grave'.

McManus/1991, 49, in discussing the reuse of these stones, notes the use of this one as a modern grave marker.

Form:cross-marked
Condition:incomplete , some
Macalister/1945, 265: `The name preceding MAQI had already been broken off, with the butt of the stone, when it was first examined in 1883'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: latin; linear; straight; expanded; plain; none; none; none; n/a
Decorations:

Macalister/1945, 265: `There is a Latin cross with expanding ends on the inscribed face'.

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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1938):--DI]MAQIMUCOI | IVODACCA
Expansion:
--DI] MAQI MUCOI IVODACCA
Macalister/1945 265 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up down
Position:ind ; arris ; beside cross ; undivided
Macalister/1945, 265: `Ogham on two angles (up-down), starting on the sinister edge'.
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:McManus/1991, 103.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 265: `The name preceding MAQI has...been broken off...and only the concluding letters, apparently DI, remained. These had spalled away before I saw the monument. A feather-mark is described (1884) as following the concluding name; I identified the mark, but I did not consider it artificial'.
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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