| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:69 Macalister/1949:646 Petrie/1872:41 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 26: `This fragment was drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Macalister/1909, 14, records the stone much as Petrie did, however Macalister/1949, 47, states that `these letters have been broken off and lost since the drawing was made'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.64 x 0.56 x 0.13 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | incomplete , poor Petrie/1872, 26, speaks of a `fragment'. Macalister/1909, 14, states that some of the stone had `broken away'. Macalister/1949, 47, states that since 1909 more damage had been done to the stone, taking away the last remnants of the inscription. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; plain; plain; angular; inner curv; none; decorated |
| Decorations: | geometric key pattern Macalister/1909, 14, states that the stone is a four-line cross with a circle round the intersection, enclosed in a Greek fret-margin, `with a plain crosslet at the centre'. |
| Petrie, G. (1822): | MA[-- Expansion: MA[-- Macalister/1909 14 reading only Macalister/1949 47 reading only Petrie/1872 26 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; below cross ; separated The inscription is below the cross and outside the margins. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | The MA may have formed part of a name, or may have been the beginning of MAC indicating the use of Goidelic. |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The A was in the `OC' form indicating an half-uncial inscription. |
| Legibility: | poor Macalister/1909, 14, argues for an MA surviving on the stone, but Macalister/1949, 47, records that even these letters had now been broken away. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |