Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:55 Macalister/1949:636 Petrie/1872:107 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Graves, J. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 52: `Drawn by M[argaret]. S[tokes]. from a rubbing taken of the stone by the Rev. James Graves, at Clonmacnois, in 1869.' Macalister/1949, 46, records the stone as still on site. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.56 x 0.43 x 0.08 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | complete , good |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; plain; round holl; angular; none; none; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 11: `two line Greek cross, with invecked angles, inside a single-line margin'. |
Petrie, G. (1869): | MUIRGALAE Expansion: MUIRGALAE Lionard/1961 159 reading only Macalister/1909 11 reading only Macalister/1949 46 reading only Petrie/1872 52 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; below cross ; separated The inscription is below the cross and outside the margin. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 786 - 786 (Lionard/1961) 786 - 786 (Macalister/1949) |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The letters RGA are joined by a top stroke, with the G/A ligatured. The form of A is `OC', the R is majuscule, and the final E, which is closed has an elongated cross-stroke. |
Legibility: | good The text is clear. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Macalister/1949, 46: `(? Abbot of Clonmacnois [died] c. 786'.
Lionard/1961, 159, accepts this identification and dates the stone accordingly.