LETER/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:238
OSullivan/etal/1996:919
Site:LETER
Discovery:recognised, 1939 O'Neill
History:Macalister/1945, 232: `A fragment also found by Mr. O'Neill, Caherciveen, on or near the site of the now destroyed structure called Macrohan's Castle on this townland. It had probably been used for building material'.

Sullivan/Sheehan/1996, 244: `When first recorded by Macalister (1939a, 17), it was built into a stile a short distance S. of MacCrehin's Castle (1114)'.

Geology:Macalister/1945, 232: `grit'.

Suillivan/Sheehan/1996, 244: `sandstone'.

Dimensions:0.66 x 0.28 x 0.07 (Sullivan/Sheehan/1996)
Setting:inc
Location:Kerry County Museum (Cat: L1992:29; CPM L286)
Sullivan/Sheehan/1996, 245 records it as being in Kerry County Museum.
Form:plain
Sullivan/Sheehan/1996, 244--245: `fragment of an ogham inscribed sandstone pillar'.
Condition:frgmntry , some
Macalister/1945, 232: `broken at both ends'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):--]QNETN[O!][--
Expansion:
--]QNETN[--
Macalister/1945 232 concise discussion
Ziegler/1994 272 listing
O'Sullivan, A. et al (1996):--]QNETN[O!][--
Expansion:
--]QNETN[--
OSullivan/etal/1996 245 concise discussion

Notes

Orientation:vertical indeterminate
Position:inc ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Macalister/1945, 232: `pocked and rubbed'.
Date:None published
Language:Indeterminate (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Macalister/1945, 232--3: ` ...]MAQ NETN[... is possible, but cannot be certain. The reverse reading, which would give QVEQN, is even more hopeless'.

O'Sullivan/Sheehan/1996, 245: `The well-preserved ogham scores are deeply cut...Two vowel notches follow the last consonant but the edge of the stone is spalled off after this point'.

Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 232: `So far as the letters remain they are in good condition, but what is left is too fragmentary to convey any intelligible meaning'.

O'Sullivan/Sheehan/1996, 245: `well-preserved...deeply cut'.

Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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