| Corpus Refs: | Cuppage/etal/1986:871 |
| Site: | MRSTN |
| Discovery: | non-arch dig, 1853 Dunlevy, F.A. |
| History: | Macalister/1949, 97: `A report signed Francis A. Dunlevy...[1853] of the then recent discovery of an inscribed stone, found in the peat-bog of Moorestown, near Dingle, many feet below the surface...nothing more is known of the stone...It is certainly not in the Museum; and it is completely ignored in CIIL [Petrie/1872, Petrie/1878]'. Cuppage et al/1986, 335, record the stone as still lost. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 362: `The stone was first recorded in a communication by Dunlevy to the Kilkenny Archaeological Society on 2 November 1853. It had been found `many feet below the surface of the turf bog of Moorestown, near Dingle ... A footnote by the Editor [of the Journal] gave the information that the stone had been bought by the Rev. Rowan and `deposited by him in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy' ... There appears to be no record of this donation. Dunlevy subsequently forwarded to the Society a `tracing' of the stone which the secretary, James Graves, `submitted to Dr. O'Donovan' for comment ... In 1949 Macaloister reported that he had instituted a search for the stone in Dublin but failed to find it'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
| Setting: | Lost (present 1853, missing 1949) |
| Location: | Macalister/1949, 97, records the stone as having been found in 1853. He is the next person to record the stone, and he records it as lost. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 362: `The stone is now lost'. |
| Form: | Indeterminate Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 362: `No dimensions, description nor illustration of the stone have survived'. |
| Condition: | n/a , n/a |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| O'Donovan, Dr (1854): | --]MAC CU DRACA Expansion: --]MAC CU DRACA Cuppage/etal/1986 335 reading only Macalister/1949 97 reading only |
| Orientation: | Not Applicable |
| Position: | n/a ; n/a ; n/a ; ind |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 362: `of doubtful authenticity'. |
| Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 362: `The script used is not known'. |
| Legibility: | n/a Macalister/1949, 97: `unless it should by some miracle come to light oncemore, it would be a mere waste of time and space to acknowledge its existence in any way'. |
| Lines: | |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | yes |