Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:App. 23 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 62 |
Site: | TOURP |
Discovery: | arch excav, 2001 Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. |
History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `The stone is not recorded in any published account of the stones. In a photograph possibly dating from the 1960s, preserved in the Dúchas archive (negative no. 77: see illustration [p. 321]), the stone is shown built sideways into the east interior wall of the church, to the right of slab 11 [TOURP/33], in the place now occupied by slab 12 [TOURP/34]. The stone presumably fell out of the wall and disappeared before repair work was done to the east wallin 1986-87'. |
Geology: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.14 x 0.12 x 0.0 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1960, missing 1986) |
Location: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322, shows that the stone was photographed in the 1960s, but was missing by 1986-87. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 321: `The stone is now lost'. |
Form: | other Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `The stone was part of a slab of unknown form'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , n/a |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Okasha and Forsyth (2001): | [--][E] Expansion: [--]E Okasha/Forsyth/2001 322 reading only |
Orientation: | Incomplete Information |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (inc) |
Ling. Notes: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `cannot now be reconstructed'. |
Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `The text may have been in capital script, but the one letter in the photograph is damaged'. CISP: The sole letter E is in capitalis. At Toureen Peacaun this form of E could belong to either a half-uncial or a capitalis inscription. |
Legibility: | poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `The one letter in the photograph is damaged'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |