| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:10 Macalister/1949:606 Petrie/1872:159 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 70: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in 1822'. Macalister/1909, 2: `I found it doing duty as a headstone buried almost to the top, and had it rooted up and transported to one of the chapels where the slabs are stored'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 44. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.32 x 0.74 x 0.12 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site Macalister/1909, 2: `I found it doing duty as a headstone buried almost to the top, and had it rooted up and transported to one of the chapels where the slabs are stored'. |
| Form: | name-slab |
| Condition: | complete , good |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Petrie, G. (1872): | MAELMICHEIL Expansion: MAELMICHEIL Macalister/1909 2 reading only Macalister/1949 44, Plate XI reading only Petrie/1872 70 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated The one line horizontal inscription is placed at the top of the stone, leaving most of the face unused. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The letters seem to grow increasingly large within each word. The script is half-uncial, the A is in the `OC' form, the Es are three-pronged and the middle stroke is elongated. Some of the letters have either serifs or wedge-shaped finials. |
| Legibility: | good The text is clear. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |