HLAND/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:46
Site:HLAND
Discovery:first mentioned, 1845 Nevin, H.
History:Macalister/1945, 50--51: `Broken into three pieces, one of which was discovered by Mr. Hugh Nevin, early in the nineteenth century, and a second nearly a hundred years later, by Rev. Thos. Cloney, P.P., Templetown, Fethard. The third is still missing...The cliff here has suffered severely from marine erosion: the first fragment presumably lay in the land around the ruins of St Brican's Church, and fell upon the beach with part of the burial ground, as a result of this natural process'.
Geology:Macalister/1945,50: `reddish, sandstone pulvinar'.
Dimensions:1.18 x 0.3 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:unattch
Location:National Museum, Dublin
Gippert/Web, Ogham 46, notes that the surviving fragments of this stone are held in the National Museum, Dublin.
Form:plain
Condition:frgmntry , some
Macalister/1945, 50--51: `broken into three pieces...The fracture must have been of long standing, as the broken surfaces are weathered and waterworn'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):SEDAN[IMAQQI ||| CAT]TABBOT ||| TAVVIDERCMASOC
Expansion:
SEDAN[I MAQQI CAT]TABBOTT AVVI DERCMASOC
Macalister/1945 50--51 reading only
McManus, D. (1991):SEDAN[--]TABBOTTAVVIDERCMASOC
Expansion:
SEDAN [--]TABBOTT AVVI DERCMASOC
McManus/1991 65 reading only
Gippert, J. (1997):SEDAN[--] ||| [D!]ABBOT ||| TAVVIDE[RCMASOC
Expansion:
SEDAN[--] [D!]ABBOTT AVVI DE[RCMASOC
Gippert/Web Ogham 46 reading only [Gippert 46]

Notes

Orientation:vertical up along down
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:cut
Macalister/1945, 51: `the inscription is cut'.
Date:550 - 900 (Ziegler/1994)
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:McManus/1991, 87, 89,96, 103, 014, 115, 118, 120.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 51: `It is quite legible except the R, in which R5 is broken, and the following C, which is spalled away except the distal ends'.

Gippert/Web, Ogham 46: `-AS- in the last name cannot be ascertained because the letters are hidden by the ring that is used to hold the fragment. The dexter angle could not be documented by a photograph because of the position of the stone in the basement of the Dublin National Museum'.

Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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