Corpus Refs: | Higgins/1987:85 Macalister/1949:536 |
Site: | KBRCN |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1878 Petrie, G. |
History: | |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.42 x 0.51 x 0.13 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | earliest Higgins/1987, 363: `This stone stands upright in the graveyard at Temple Brecan, Inishmore, Aran Islands'. |
Form: | plain Higgins/1987, 363: `a large, roughly rectangular slab'. |
Condition: | inc , good |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; expanded; circular; none; outer curv; tenon; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 7: `shewn ... bearing an equilateral cross in a circle supported on a Latin cross fitché and, as it were, inserted below into a block-shaped base'. |
Petrie, G. (1878): | CRONMAEL Expansion: CRONMAEL Petrie/1878 22, Fig. 30 minor reference |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | CRONMAOL Expansion: CRONMAOL Macalister/1949 7 minor reference |
Higgins, J.G. (1987): | CRONMAOIL Expansion: CRONMAOIL Higgins/1987 363 concise discussion |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | E ; broad ; within quadrants ; inc Macalister/1949, 7: `Inscription bisected by the upper arm of the Latin cross'. |
Incision: | pocked Higgins/1987, 363: `The cross and the inscription have been executed by pocking with a small tool, probably a point and have been neatly and precisely worked'. |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Higgins/1987, 363: `in half uncials'. CISP: The lettering is half-uncial. Few of the letters are sufficiently distinct to say any morer. |
Legibility: | some Higgins/1987, 363: `The inscription is indistinct and its reading is uncertain'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |