TRALE/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:256A
Site:TRALE
Discovery:in/on structure, 1945 MacWhite, E.
History:Macalister/1945, 251--252: `While this book was in the press, a fragment of an inscription built into a wall in Tralee was reported to me by Mr. Eoin MacWhite...It is on Clounalour (Park Road), a continuation of Edward Street, 185 ft. before reaching Riverside, a road to the left. It is on the left-hand side of the road leaving Tralee. The fragment is embedded in the top course of a wall...The wall was repaired in February 1942, and these fragments are in the part affected by the repair; but I was unable to obtain any information as to their origin'.
Geology:Macalister/1945, 252: `a hard reddish stone'.
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:in struct
Location:earliest
Macalister/1945, 251--252: `It is on Clounalour (Park Road), a continuation of Edward Street, 185 ft. before reaching Riverside, a road to the left. It is on the left-hand side of the road leaving Tralee. The fragment is embedded in the top course of a wall'.
Form:plain
Condition:incomplete , poor
Macalister/1945, 251--252, quotes E. McWhite in saying that the stone was broken into at least three pieces.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


TRALE/1/1

Readings

MacWhite, E. (1945):BASI{GW}B[--
Expansion:
BASIGWB[--
Macalister/1945 252 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Incomplete Information
Position:n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:none
Legibility:inc
Macalister/1945, 252: `The three scores here rendered Gw slope the wrong way. The concluding B, which is close to the fracture, might be part of a fourth cross-line score, indicating that the last letter was R'.
Lines:
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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