Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:288 |
Site: | KLGRV |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1857 Williams, W. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 280: `discovered in an ancient cemetery on this townland by William Williams of Dungarvan: now removed to Mount Melleray Abbey, where [it is]... cemented down horizontally'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 283: `Slate'. |
Dimensions: | 1.8 x 0.53 x 0.15 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | on ground |
Location: | other Macalister/1945, 280: `now removed to Mount Melleray Abbey'. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | complete , poor Macalister/1945, 283: `The surface is scaled, the top spalled, and the face...fissured'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | DEBRAN ||| IMAQI ELTI | AVIOGATOS Expansion: DEBRANI MAQI ELTI AVI OGATOS Macalister/1945 283 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up down |
Position: | many ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 283: `pocked'. |
Date: | 500 - 550 (Ziegler/1994) |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | good Macalister/1945, 283: 'N45 and all of the following I but I5 are chipped away; the vowels are lost from AVI; and in OGATOS 102 as well as the TO are broken away. The missing letters can be restored by a consideration of the spaces available'. McManus/1991, 95, 171 n17, expresses doubt about the reading. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |