Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:958 |
Site: | KDEAS |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1935 Lowry-Corry, D. |
History: | Macalister/1949, 123, states that the stone was found within the cemetery of parish church of Killadeas, and that it was first published by Lady D. Lowry-Corry in 1935. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.57 x 0.91 x 0.11 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site Macalister/1949, 123: `The cemetery of the parish church of Killadeas'. |
Form: | body-slab Macalister/1949, 123: `a slab'. |
Condition: | complete , some |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; interlace; expanded; other; plain; none; outer curv; other; n/a |
Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 23: `On the reverse face a semée of cup-shaped hollows, indicating an earlier appropriation of the stone. The obverse face bears a cross pattée in a circle, enriched with triquetras upon the expansions of the arms, and interlacements (now defaced beyond recovery) in the cantons. The cross is mounted on a stem, forked below, and supported, as it were, upon a boat-shaped base'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | BENDACHT | ARART | ULUR | CAIN Expansion: BENDACHT AR ART U LURCAIN Translation: A blessing upon Art ua Lurcáin (PN). Macalister/1949 123, Fig. XVII reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | inc ; broad ; beside cross ; undivided Macalister/1949, 123: `on the dexter side of the stem'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: Insular half-uncial with the 'OC' A, majuscule R, curved L and T and a D with the an ascender which bends to the left over the bow. |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1949, 123, states that the inscription is `much defaced', and is also equivocal about his reading. |
Lines: | 4 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |