KINET/2

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:189
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 `lying prostrate in the NW part of the graveyard'.

Geology:Macalister/1945, 182: `grit'.
Dimensions:1.8 x 0.52 x 0.16 (Cuppage/etal/1986)
Setting:on ground
Location:on site
Cuppage et al/1986, 328, records the stone as now `lying prostrate in the NW part of the graveyard'.
Form:plain
Condition:complete , some
Folklore:Macalister/1945, 183, records the story `that if two children born of the same mother, with no other children between, were kept without speaking until they were nine years of age, and then put into Kinard graveyard, they would speak the language of these inscriptions'.
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


KINET/2/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):SAGWTILLOTETIAVISRUSA
Expansion:
SAGWTI LLOTETI AVI SRUSA
Cuppage/etal/1986 328 reading only
Macalister/1945 183 reading only
McManus, D. (1986):ACURCITIVEVODDIUNGWAC
Expansion:
A CURCITI VEVODDIUGWAC
McManus/1986 21 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Incomplete Information
Position:n/a ; arris ; mixed ; undecorated
Macalister/1945, 183: `on the dexter edge and top. I begins, exceptionally, at the top, and reads downward'.

McManus/1986, 21, reads the stone from the bottom up.

Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:none
Legibility:poor
Macalister/1945, 182: `inscription much worn'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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