RANTA/1

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

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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):OSBBAR
Expansion:
OSBBAR
Macalister/1945 300 reading only

Notes

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

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