Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:42 |
Site: | BALGH |
Discovery: | recognised, 1944 Macalister, R.A.S. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 47, gives no details of the whereabouts of this stone, other than 'Balloughton' in the Barony of Bargy. Moore/1996, 13, gives the location and grid-reference, and implies that the stone has not been moved in the interim. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 2.9 x 1.37 x 1.07 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | earliest |
Form: | plain Macalister/1945, 47: `tapering upwards'. |
Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1945, 48, indicates that the two angles of the western face have `been completely hammered away'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | other Macalister/1945, 47-48: `bearing on the southern face, four small cup-marks arranged as though at the angles of an irregular quadrilateral figure - a vertical groove running through the two on the dexter side: and in the middle of the eastern face three similar cupmarks forming an inverted triangle'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | [--] Expansion: [--] Macalister/1945 47--48 minor reference |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Incomplete Information (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 48: `ogham writing...which, however, has been completely hammered away'. Moore/1996, 13, rejects the idea that an inscription ever existed on this stone. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | yes |