Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:312 |
Site: | RANTA |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1875 Ferguson, S. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 299, credits S. Ferguson with the first publication of this inscription. |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 299: `Limestone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.64 x 0.27 x 0.11 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | earliest Macalister/1945, 299--300: `standing in a dense growth of nettles in the old graveyard of Mullagh, on the townland of Rantavan. I could not find it on my first visit...Having received more definite directions from a friend, I returned to make another search, which was successful. The stone is in a line running northward from the middle of the north wall of the ruined church: beside it is a small tombstone, surmounted by a cross, commemorating James Farrelly, 1897'. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | incomplete , good Macalister/1945, 300, notes there is a fracture at the top and a flake has been detached from the back. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | OSBBAR Expansion: OSBBAR Macalister/1945 300 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | inc ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated Macalister/1945, 300: `The scores...read (down)'. |
Incision: | rubbed Macalister/1945, 300: `The scores are small and neat, rubbed on the stone'. |
Date: | 550 - 900 (Ziegler/1994) |
Language: | name only (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 300: `The scores are small and neat, rubbed on the stone...A second R, added tentatively by Ferguson, does not exist: there was never any more than those six letters on the stone, unless something has been lost by the fracture on the top...if there had been any scores upon it [the flake missing from the back] we might have expected to find their distal ends along the fractured edge, though this is not conclusive'. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |