| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:41 Macalister/1949:629 Petrie/1872:27 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Hennessy, W.M. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 23: `This fragment was drawn from a rubbing made by Mr William M. Hennessy, at Clonmacnois, in the year 1869'. Macalister/1949, 46, records the stone as still on site. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.56 x 0.46 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | complete , good |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; expanded; plain; angular; none; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 8-9, argues that this is a cross with `a crosslet and short lines' added near the terminals. |
| Petrie, G. (1869): | [..]ARLIA Expansion: [OROIT] AR LIA Petrie/1872 23 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | ARLIA Expansion: ARLIA Macalister/1909 9 reading only Macalister/1949 46 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; separated |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The R is minuscule and has a wedge-shaped finial, as do the L and I. The first A is in the `OC' form. |
| Legibility: | good The inscription is clear. Petrie/1872, 23, argues for a restoration of [OR] at the beginning of the text, but Macalister/1909, 9, dismisses this. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |