CLMAC/55

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'.

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Inscriptions


CLMAC/55/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1909):O~RDO | MUIR | ETH | ACH
Expansion:
OROIT DO MUIRETHACH
Macalister/1909 16 reading only
Macalister/1949 48 reading only

Notes

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

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