| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:146 Macalister/1949:705 Petrie/1872:136 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 62: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Macalister/1899, 116, records the slab as still on site. Macalister/1909, 29: `To my great regret I failed utterly to find this slab on my third visit, though I twice ransacked the whole churchyard with the special purpose of re-discovering it'. Macalister/1949, 54: `The slab is now lost'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
| Setting: | Lost (present 1901, missing 1905) |
| Location: | Macalister/1899, 116 records the stone as still on site, yet Macalister/1909, 29, records that he could not find the stone on his third visit in 1905. |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | incomplete , n/a Macalister/1909, 29: `lower half of a...much worn slab'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; interlace; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; none; decorated |
| Decorations: | geometric ribbon interlace Macalister/1909, 29, argues for knot-work on the upright of the cross rather than the `Gothic-looking floral scroll' of Petrie/1872, Plate LV. Macalister/1949, 54: `covered with interlacement'. |
| Petrie, G. (1822): | [O~R~D]OBRAN |[UCHE]LLACHAIN Expansion: [OROIT D]O BRAN [U CHE]LLACHAIN Translation: Pray for Bran (PN), descendant of Cellachan (PN). Petrie/1872 62 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | --]TAR | [..] || [UA]LLA[C]HAIN Expansion: [OROI]T AR [UA]LLACHAIN Macalister/1909 29 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | --]AR | [UA] || LLA[C]HAIN Expansion: [OROIT] AR [UA]LLACHAIN Macalister/1949 54 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription seen by Macalister was in the two lower quadrants. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The A's are in the `OC' form; the R is majuscule; the L's are curved and the final N appears to have a short curved stroke to the right from the bottom of the final descender. |
| Legibility: | some |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |