| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:125 Macalister/1949:687 Petrie/1872:19 |
| Site: | CLMAC |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1822 Petrie, G. |
| History: | Petrie/1872, 20: `Mr Hennessy saw the stone in 1869, in the churchyard of Clonmacnois, where it still stands at the head of a grave...Drawn by Dr. Petrie at Clonmacnois, in the year 1822'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 52. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.16 x 0.61 x 0.13 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | inc |
| Location: | on site |
| Form: | cross-slab Macalister/1909, 25: `There is a knob on the stone below the base of the cross which has not been smoothed away; no doubt the stone was meant to stand upright, in which case this irregularity would be hidden in the ground'. |
| Condition: | complete , good |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; plain; circular; cruciform; inner curv; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Petrie/1872, 20: `the cross is of the oldest type, the arms and shaft of equal length, and bound by a circular band, the circle being so imperfectly drawn that it is more an oval than a circle'. Macalister/1909, 25: `A large cross founded on the type of Celtic cross, but with the part inside the circle suppressed'. Macalister/1949, 52: `cross with circular expansion at the centre'. |
| Petrie, G. (1822): | O~R~ DO{H}U || ACAN Expansion: OROIT DO HUACAN Translation: Pray for Huacan (PN). Petrie/1872 20, Plate VII reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | OR ~ DO{H}U || ACAN Expansion: OROIT DO HUACAN Macalister/1909 25 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | OR~DOC{H}U || ACAR ||| AN Expansion: OROIT DO CHUACARAN Macalister/1949 52, Plate XXVI reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription is in one line running up within the two sinister quadrants. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 808 - (Macalister/1949) Macalister/1949, 52, argues for a date later than 808. |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow; a superscript H has been placed, presumably after the mistake had been noticed, between the last two letters before the arm of the cross intervenes. The two drawings in Macalister/1909 and Macalister/1949 are quite different. One shows a gap between OR and DO with the contraction mark above this gap, the other shows no such gap, placing the letter D in the space instead and seeing the contraction mark over the R. Moreover, only Macalister/1949, Plate XXVI, shows letters atop the cross. |
| Legibility: | good |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 1 |
| Doubtful: | no |