Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:555 Petrie/1872:108 |
Site: | CBBRN |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 52: `This tombstone was found at Clonburn, near Clonmacnois...and a small sketch of it was made by Dr. Petrie in the year 1822'. Macalister/1949, 17--18, records the stone as then lying in the graveyard at Clonburren. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.86 x 0.74 x 0.11 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | earliest Macalister/1949, 17--18: `lying in the old graveyard of Cloonburren'. |
Form: | cross-slab Macalister/1949, 18: `A handsome slab, bottom broken away'. |
Condition: | incomplete , some Macalister/1949, 18: `bottom broken away...thickly covered with lichen'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; curved; angular; inner curv; other; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric spiral Macalister/1949, 18: `...a six-line cross having an unusually elaborate spiral treatment of the side arms - badly defaced on the sinister side...there is a fret border along the surviving top edge'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | ORDOM || AEL[MOCH] | EIRGE Expansion: OR DO MAELM[OCH]EIRG[E] Macalister/1949 18, Plate III reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | inc ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant Macalsiter/1987, 18: `The inscription is on the sinister side, reading downward'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The A is the the 'OC' form and the curved L appears to have a wedge-shaped finial. The Rs are majuscule and the Es are in the closed minuscule form, with the first E conjoined with the following L. The D is O-shaped with a short curved stroke to the left from the top left-hand side of the O. The G is half-uncial, and the M has a curved top stroke. |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1949, 18: `The stone is now so thickly covered with lichen that the carving is almost invisible'. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |