| Corpus Refs: | Cuppage/etal/1986:674 Macalister/1945:181 |
| Site: | EMLGW |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1848 Windele, J. |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 174: `It was found, according to Hitchcock's notes, in a souterrain on the townland, acting as a jamb-stone for the entrance'. Cuppage/etal/1986, 223, states that the stone was first noted by in Windele/1848, and that the stone `formerly acted either as a lintel or as a jamb stone to a souterrain in a destroyed rath'. It now stands `against the W side of a N-S field wall in a field on the W side of the main Dingle to Lispole road, near the old Dingle railway station'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.08 x 0.36 x 0.24 (Cuppage/etal/1986) |
| Setting: | in ground |
| Location: | on site Cuppage/etal/1986, 223, It now stands `against the W side of a N-S field wall in a field on the W side of the main Dingle to Lispole road, near the old Dingle railway station'. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | incomplete , some Cuppage/etal/1986, 223: `The stone is broken beyond the Q and the remainder of the inscription is missing'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | TALAGNIMAQ[-- Expansion: TALAGNI MAQ[-- Macalister/1945 174 reading only |
| Cuppage, J. et al. (1986): | TALAGNIMAQ[-- Expansion: TALAGNI MAQ[-- Cuppage/etal/1986 223 reading only |
| McManus, D. (1991): | TALAGNIMA[.] Expansion: TALAGNI MA[C][-- Expansion: TALAGNI MA[Q][-- McManus/1991 65 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 174: `The inscription is pocked'. |
| Date: | 366 - 433 (McManus/1991) See McManus/1991, 93--94 400 - 550 (Ziegler/1994) See Ziegler/1994, 234. |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | good Macalister/1945, 174: `The inscription...so far as it survives is in good condition'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |