CLMAC/252

Corpus Refs:	Macalister/1949:850
Site:	CLMAC
Discovery:	first mentioned, 1949 Macalister, R.A.S.
History:
Geology:
Dimensions:	0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:	Lost (present , missing )
Location:	unknown
Form:	Indeterminate
Condition:	inc , inc
Folklore:	none
Crosses:	1: latin; linear; expanded; bifid; plain; none; none; none; plain
Decorations:	Macalister/1949, 71: `a cross with triangular expansions and corner loops, the latest type of cross in the Clonmacnois slabs, and the words `Lecht Toirrdelbaig hui Concobair'. I see no reason to doubt that this is a rough memorandum of the actual gravestone'.

Inscriptions

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):

LECHTTOIRRDELBAIGHUICONCOBAIR
Expansion:
LECHT TOIRRDELBAIG HUI CONCOBAIR
Macalister/1949 71 listing

Orientation:	Indeterminate
Position:	inc ; inc ; inc ; ind
Incision:	inc
Date:	None published
Language:	Goidelic (ind)
Ling. Notes:	none
Palaeography:	CISP: No illustration of the text of this inscription survives, only of the cross accompanying the text.
Legibility:
Lines:
Carving errors:	0
Doubtful:	no

Toirrdelbaig hui Concobair (Language: Goidelic; Gender: male)
Macalister/1949, 71: `in the upper margin of the MS. of the Annals of Tigernach (Bodleian Library Rawl. B 488, folio 23 verso) there is a record of one other Clonmacnois slab of some historical importance. The pages chronicle the death, in 1156 A.D., of Toirrdelbach ua Concoboir, `King of all Ireland and Augustus of Western Europe', and his burial `beside the Altar of Ciaran', i.e., at Clonmacnois there is a sketch of a cross…and the words ""Lecht Toirrdelbaig hui Concobair" I see no reason to doubt that this is a rough memorandum of the actual gravestone'.