Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:77 Macalister/1949:651 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1898 Macalister, R.A.S. |
History: | Macalister/1899, 120, no. 184, is the first recording of this stone. Macalister/1949, 48, records the stone as still on site. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.08 x 0.46 x 0.1 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | complete , good |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: arcs; outline; expanded; curved; plain; circular; outer curv; none; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 15--16: `bearing a cross resembling [a cross pattee]...formed of four arcs of circles within a double-line margin'. Macalister/1949, 48: `Cross pattee in a circle'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | O~RDO | MUIR | ETH | ACH Expansion: OROIT DO MUIRETHACH Macalister/1909 16 reading only Macalister/1949 48 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; below cross ; separated The text is below the cross and outside the margins. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1909, 16: `very neatly cut ornamental lettering'. CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. Some of the letters exhibit bifid terminals. The initial O has a contraction mark over it and both taper downwards to a point; the D has an ascender bending to the left over a heart-shaped open-bow; the E is three-pronged with an elongated middle stroke; the A is open-bowed with a flat top and is exactly paralleled by the A's found at CRACH/1; the Rs are majuscule and the second has a horizontal cross-stroke. |
Legibility: | good The text is clear. |
Lines: | 4 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |