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