Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:188 |
Site: | KINET |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1849 Graves, C. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 182, cites C. Graves as the first recorder of the stone in 1849. Cuppage et al/1986, 328, records the stone as now `set upright in the ground near the W side of the graveyard'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 182: `pulvinar of grit'. |
Dimensions: | 1.8 x 0.53 x 0.28 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | on site Cuppage et al/1986, 328, records the stone as now `set upright in the ground near the W side of the graveyard'. |
Form: | cross-marked |
Condition: | complete , good Macalister/1945, 182: `waterworn'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; linear; straight; plain; plain; angular; none; none; n/a 2: equal-armed; linear; straight; plain; plain; angular; none; none; n/a 3: equal-armed; linear; straight; plain; plain; angular; none; none; n/a |
Decorations: | Macalister/1945, 182: `an equal armed cross with two similar crosses in the upper cantons, all in a square'. Cuppage et al/1986, 328: `an unusual cross inscription consisting of a rectangular outline divided into four roughly equal parts, the upper quadrants being similarly subdivided'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | MARIANI Expansion: MARIANI Macalister/1945 182 reading only McManus/1991 65 reading only Swift/1997 91 reading only Ziegler/1994 206 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; beside cross ; separated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 400 - 499 (Swift/1997) 400 - 700 (Ziegler/1994) |
Language: | name only (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | See McManus/1991, 94. |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | good Macalister/1945, 182: `in good condition'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Ziegler/1994, 204, argues for this being a Latin name, taken into Irish as either an o-stem or io-stem, and here found in the genitive singular form.