| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:122 Power/etal/1997:7962 |
| Site: | MNTRI |
| Discovery: | in/on structure, 1840 inc |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 119--120: `Found in a ringfort, called, from its association with an old mill, Mullenroe, where it had been lying over another stone about 6' square and covered with earth. Appropriated to serve as a footbridge over a small stream called Dallaheena; moved into a farmyard on the townland; and in 1851 set up, apparently under Windele's direction, beside a well dedicated to `St. Olan', (apparently=Eolang or Eulogius), where it now stands'. Power et al/1997, 167: `Discovered c. 1840 when flour mill demolished on site of possible ringfort (8759); a second ogham stone...apparently found with it. This stone...was for some time used as a foot bridge over Delehinagh river (Hartnett 1939, 74) until 1851, when erected nearby beside St Olan's holy well (9271), where it remains today'. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945, 119: `Grit'. |
| Dimensions: | 2.4 x 0.8 x 0.15 (Power/etal/1997) |
| Setting: | in ground |
| Location: | other Power/etal/1997, 167: `beside St Olan's holy well'. |
| Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 119--120: `(total length, according to a note of Windele's, 12' 5")...It is heavily coated with lichen and has suffered seriously from the attentions of well-meaning devotees, who have covered the surface with rudely-scratched crosses'. |
| Condition: | complete , some |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | [MADOR]AMAQIDEGO Expansion: MADORA MAQI DEGO Macalister/1945 120 reading only Power/etal/1997 167 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up |
| Position: | ind ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | poor Power/etal/1997, 167: `Inscription worn and damaged'. Macalister/1945, 120: `The inscription...begins at 2' 3 1/2" from the bottom. The H-surface is chipped away as far as the end of the first name; the H-half of the R is quite lost except the second and fifth scores, though the slope of the surviving B-half helps us to distinguish it from N. The first four letters can be made out with a little trouble. I had previously read the sixth letter as U, but now think that it contains only one notch (A), though two (O) are possible'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |