Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:299 |
Site: | KNBOY |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1907 Macalister, R.A.S. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 289: `When I visited this stone in the company of the late Mr. R. J. Ussher, of Cappagh, many years ago, it lay on the lawn of Salterbridge House. Mr. Richard Chearnley, Salterbridge, then the proprietor of the estate (which includes the site of Seskinan church), told us that it had come from that building...I revisited Salterbridge in 1940 for the purpose of checking my former reading, but learnt that the stone could no longer be found.' |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1907, missing 1940) |
Location: | Macalister/1945, 289: `I revisted Salterbridge in 1940 for the purpose of checking my former reading but learnt that the stone could not be found'. |
Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 289: `It was evidently the broken-off top of a pillar-stone'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , n/a |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1907): | --][E!]MONGEDIAS ||| MAQ ||| IMUIBITI Expansion: [MAQI] MONGEDIAS MAQI MUIBITI Macalister/1945 289 reading only Ziegler/1994 277 listing |
Orientation: | vertical up along down |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 400 - 500 (Ziegler/1994) Dating based on the linguistics of the two names Mongedias and Muibiti (Ziegler/1994, 209 and 212--213). |
Language: | Incomplete Information (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 289: `The prefixed MAQI is purely conjectural: nothing is left of it but the last two vowel-notches.' |
Legibility: | n/a |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |