| Corpus Refs: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Monaincha 6 |
| Site: | MONAI |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1964 inc |
| History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 211: `first recorded in 1964 when it was in the NMI. A file record sheet, FILE IA/192/64 was then made by the Museum, and the fragments were photographed. The file record states that the fragments of stone had been found `in various places in the early church site of ... Monaincha' and were mounted on the wall of the church at Monaincha. In October 1964 the fragments were removed from the Museum by the OPW and by 1983 were in the depot in Kilkenny, where they remain'. |
| Geology: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 211: `Old Red Sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.33 x 0.335 x 0.045 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | other Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 211: `The fragments are now in the Dúchas depot at Kilkenny'. |
| Form: | other Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 211: `fragments of a (?plain) slab'. |
| Condition: | frgmntry , poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 211: `What survives of the stone are three contiguous fragments of a large slab which have been stuck together. None of the edges is original'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 211: `no carving other than the text'. |
| Okasha and Forsyth (1999): | [--]C~[S~][.][-- Expansion: [--] SANCTUS [--] Translation: [--] saint [--] Okasha/Forsyth/2001 212 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 211: `The incomplete text is incised in one horizontal line on one face of the stone. It is not clear how much text was lost from each end, nor whether there was originally further lines of text above or below the existing line'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Latin (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 212: `The close similarity with the lettering on Monaincha 5 [MONAI/5] suggests that this might also have read [s]c~[s~] for s(an)c(tu)s `saint''. |
| Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 211: `The script used is half uncial'. CISP: The script is uncertain. The two surviving letters are an oridinary C and a capitalis S. This form of S could be used in a half-uncial text or a text is capitals. Without any possibility of confirmation the former is, however, the more likely. |
| Legibility: | poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 211: `The lettering on all three pieces is damaged'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |