Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:873 Petrie/1872:122 |
Site: | INBOF |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Graves, Rev. J. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 57: `Found among the ruins of the church on the island of Inisbofin, in Lough Ree. Drawn by M.S. from a rubbing of the stone taken by the Rev. James Graves in 1869'. Macalister/1949, 79, states that the stone was also published by Crawford in 1917, and that the stone was still there when he visited the island. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.07 x 0.64 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | inc |
Form: | cross-slab Macalister/1949, 79: `Slab'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , poor Macalister/1949, 79: `broken into three fragments'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; plain; curved; none; inner curv; other; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 79: `a wheel cross, with looped ends to the lower terminal'. |
Stokes, M. (1872): | [..]OITDO | [..]OR || MACAN Expansion: [OR]OIT DO [CH]ORMACAN Translation: Pray for Cormacan (PN). Petrie/1872 57, Fig. 122 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | [O]RÓIT DO | [CH]ORMACAN Expansion: [O]RÓIT DO [CH]ORMACAN Macalister/1949 78 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; head ; mixed ; separated Macalister/1949, 79: `Inscription in two lines at the top, the first free of the cross, the second in the two upper cantons'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The A's are in the 'OC' form. The D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow and which terminates in a wedge-shaped finial. The Rs are majuscule. The T is curved and the O of the second line is made up of two arcs and is oval shaped, a form attested in Brittany in the eleventh century (STGRH/1 and possibly STGRH/2). The M and N are in the minuscule forms and have curved top strokes. The first O of line 1 has an accent mark over it. |
Legibility: | some |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |