Corpus Refs: | none |
Site: | CLWEN |
Discovery: | in/on structure, 1960 inc |
History: | Fanning/OhEailidhe/1980, 13, `Found built into the wall of the former R.C. church when the building was being altered for use as a parish centre in the 1960s. The stone is at present in the possession of Mrs. Canavan of Bellaugh, Athlone, though it is intended eventually to display it in the new R.C. church at Cloonowen'. |
Geology: | Fanning/OhEailidhe/1980, 13, `sandstone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.2 x 0.16 x 0.0 (Fanning/OhEalidhe/1980) |
Setting: | unattch |
Location: | other Fanning/OhEailidhe/1980, 13, `The stone is at present in the possession of Mrs. Canavan of Bellaugh, Athlone, though it is intended eventually to display it in the new R.C. church at Cloonowen'. |
Form: | cross-slab Fanning/OhEailidhe/1980, 13, `fragment...of a slab'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , good Fanning/OhEailidhe/1980, 13, `fragment...of a slab'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: inc; outline; straight; plain; ind; ind; inner curv; ind; plain |
Decorations: | Fanning/OhEailidhe/1980, 13, `It bears the top and part of the ring of an incised outlined ringed cross'. |
Fanning, T. et al. (1980): | ORO || [--] Expansion: ORO[IT][--] Fanning/ÓhÉailidhe/1980 13 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; undivided |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The second O is almost lozenge-shaped, while if the first letter was an O it was rounded. The R could be taken as either half-uncial or majuscule. It is likely that the inscription was in half-uncial. |
Legibility: | good Fanning/ÓhÉailidhe/1980, 13: `The letters RO prefixed by part of what was probably another O probably make up the first part of ORO[IT]'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |