| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:34 |
| Site: | LEGAN |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1891 Moore, J. |
| History: | |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945, 38: `Grit'. |
| Dimensions: | 2.03 x 0.51 x 0.42 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | on ground |
| Location: | earliest Macalister/1945, 38: `Formerly a corner-stone (?) in a now ruined structure called Legan Castle: at present (1942) prostrate at its door, and liable to injury through the heaping of farm appliances upon it from time to time'. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | incomplete , some |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; straight; n/a; plain; none; none; none; n/a |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1945, 39: `a plain cross of two lines pocked on the inscribed face'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | LOBB[.]K[..]MAQQIMUC || [..][R] || [.]N[.] Expansion: LOBBI KOI MAQQI MUCCOI RINI Macalister/1945 38--39 concise discussion Ziegler/1994 255 reading only |
| McManus, D. (1991): | [..]LL[..][….]MAQQ[..][M][..]C[…] Expansion: [..]LL[..][….]MAQQ[..]M[..]C[…] McManus/1991 67 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up along down |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undivided |
| Incision: | pocked |
| Date: | 400 - 550 (Ziegler/1994) |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | See McManus/1991, 79. |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 38--39: `inscription pocked and much worn...The vowels are all faint, and some of them are flaked away -- including the final I, after which the whole sinister angle is chipped. There is no trace of any writing after the letters specified, and I do not think there ever was any. 2C is very difficult to trace: the N scores are oblique, but they certainly do not form part of an R'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |