| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:117 Macalister/1949:682 Petrie/1872:47 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 28: `Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 51. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.76 x 0.51 x 0.11 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab |
| Condition: | complete , some The top of the stone appears to have been lost. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; expanded; square; angular; inner curv; other; plain |
| Decorations: | frame; geometric key pattern Macalister/1909, 23, `[A cross] of the Celtic type enclosed in a Greek fret-border. The present example is quadrate, the ends terminating below in spirals enclosing between them a panel containing a knot. The marginal fret is singularly irregular'. Macalister/1949, 51: `Wheel cross, base ending in spirals, all in a fret border'. |
| Petrie, G. (1822): | OROITARMAELA[N] Expansion: OROIT AR MAELA[N] Petrie/1872 28 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | OROITARMAELA[-- Expansion: OROIT AR MAELA[-- Macalister/1909 23 reading only Macalister/1949 51 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The O's are angular and almost lozenge-shaped; the R is majuscule; the A is in the `OC' form and the E is closed. |
| Legibility: | some |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |