WHFLD/3

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:217
OSullivan/etal/1996:908
Site:WHFLD
Discovery:first mentioned, 1853 The MacGillicuddy
History:Macalister/1945, 208: `Four stones inscribed with Ogham writing were exhibited by The MacGillicuddy of the Reeks at the Dublin Exhibition of 1853, and were presented by him to the Royal Irish Academy in the following year'.

Gippert/Web, Ogham 217, cites Brash (OIM, 190) that this stone was found by J. Windele, `in the kitchen of a house belonging to the MacGillicuddy, on the townland of Whitefield, Parish of Knockane, and barony of Dunkerron', but `the tenant could give no information as to where it came from; it was then used as a hearth-stone'.

Geology:
Dimensions:0.99 x 0.23 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:unattch
Location:National Museum, Dublin (Cat: W11)
Form:plain
Condition:incomplete , some
Macalister/1945, 211: `The top of the stone is broken off'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: equal-armed; outline; expanded; expanded; plain; none; none; none; n/a
2: equal-armed; linear; straight; n/a; plain; none; none; none; n/a
3: latin; outline; straight; plain; plain; none; none; none; plain
Decorations:

Macalister/1945, 211: `crosses have been made on the faces of this stone; incompetently formed, in contrast to the general neatness of the inscription, and evidently by different or later hands'.

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Inscriptions


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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):NOCATIMAQIMAQIREC[--] | MAQIMUCOIUDDAMI
Expansion:
NOCATI MAQI MAQIREC[--] MAQI MUCOI UDDAMI
Macalister/1945 210--211 reading only
McManus/1991 65 reading only
OSullivan/etal/1996 236 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up up
Position:inc ; arris ; mixed ; undivided
Incision:inc
Date:400 - 550 (Ziegler/1994)
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:none
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 211, states that the end of the first line has gone.
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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