KLGRV/3

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

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Inscriptions


KLGRV/3/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):DEBRAN ||| IMAQI ELTI | AVIOGATOS
Expansion:
DEBRANI MAQI ELTI AVI OGATOS
Macalister/1945 283 reading only

Notes

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

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