| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:876 Petrie/1872:91 |
| Site: | HAREI |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 45: `Dr. Petrie drew this inscription and cross in the year 1822. The stone he found lying in the burial-ground of an old church dedicated to St. Ciaran on Inis Ainghin, or Hare Island...Dr. O'Donovan, when engaged on the Ordnance Survey some years afterwards, saw this tombstone...This stone is not now to be found'. Macalister/1949, 80: `now lost'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
| Setting: | Lost (present 1822, missing 1872) |
| Location: | Petrie/1872, 45, comments that the stone was seen by Dr. O'Donovan some time after 1822, but that at the time of publication the stone had been lost. Macalister/1949, 80: `now lost'. Fanning/OhEailidhe/1980, 11, `The stone was noted as missing in 1872 and has not been located since'. |
| Form: | cross-slab Macalister/1949, 80: `a slab'. |
| Condition: | n/a , n/a |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: inc; outline; straight; expanded; square; angular; none; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 80: `A cross with square expansions at the ends and in the centre -- the latter enriched with interlacing work'. |
| Petrie, G. (1872): | O~R~AR | TUAT || H || CHAR | {A}N Expansion: OROIT AR TUATHCHARAN Translation: A prayer for Tuathcharan. Petrie/1872 45, Fig. 91 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | O~R~AR | TUATHCHAR | A~N Expansion: OROIT AR TUATHCHARA~N Macalister/1949 80 reading only |
| Fanning, T. et al. (1980): | O~R~ AR | TUAT || H || CHAR | A~N~ Expansion: OROIT AR TUATHCHARAN Fanning/ÓhÉailidhe/1980 12 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; inc ; inc |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. At least two of the A's are in the 'OC' form. The A of the first line also has a squarish bow. The Rs are half-uncial as are the Ts, while the N is majuscule. The H is minuscule. |
| Legibility: | n/a Macalister/1949, 80, comments on Petrie's reading: `Nothing but a confirmation by rediscovery of the stone could persuade us of the accuracy of this rendering'. |
| Lines: | 3 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |