Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:App. 7 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 48 |
Site: | TOURP |
Discovery: | arch excav, 1944 Duignan, M.V. |
History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 307: `The stone was found in the summer of 1944 during excavation at the site ... It was a stray find from the rubble around stone no. 40 (the East Cross) [TOURP/8] ... In a photograph possibly dating from the 1960s, preseved in the Dúchas archive (negatives no. 82, 83: see illustrations above [pp. 305, 307], the stone is shown built into the east interior wall of the church, to the right of the plain free-standing cross, in the upper register of slabs. The stone presumably fell out of the wall and disappeared before repair work was done to the east wall in 1986-87'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1949, 213: `sandstone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.13 x 0.19 x 0.0 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1960, missing 1986) |
Location: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 307, shows that the stone was extant when photographed in the 1960s, but was lost by 1986/87. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 307: `The stone is now lost'. |
Form: | other Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 307: `The stone was a fragment of a slab of unknown form'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , n/a |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | --]TO[-- Expansion: --]TO[-- Macalister/1949 213 reading only |
Okasha and Forsyth (2001): | [--]TO[--] Expansion: [--]TO[--] Okasha/Forsyth/2001 308 reading only |
Orientation: | Indeterminate |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 308: `cannot now be interpreted'. |
Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 308: `The text was in half-uncial script'. CISP: The curved T with flat top-stroke indicates the script to have been half-uncial. |
Legibility: | poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 307--308: `fragmentary text ... [which] appears in the photograph to be legible'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |