| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:46 |
| Site: | HLAND |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1845 Nevin, H. |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 50--51: `Broken into three pieces, one of which was discovered by Mr. Hugh Nevin, early in the nineteenth century, and a second nearly a hundred years later, by Rev. Thos. Cloney, P.P., Templetown, Fethard. The third is still missing...The cliff here has suffered severely from marine erosion: the first fragment presumably lay in the land around the ruins of St Brican's Church, and fell upon the beach with part of the burial ground, as a result of this natural process'. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1945,50: `reddish, sandstone pulvinar'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.18 x 0.3 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | National Museum, Dublin Gippert/Web, Ogham 46, notes that the surviving fragments of this stone are held in the National Museum, Dublin. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | frgmntry , some Macalister/1945, 50--51: `broken into three pieces...The fracture must have been of long standing, as the broken surfaces are weathered and waterworn'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | SEDAN[IMAQQI ||| CAT]TABBOT ||| TAVVIDERCMASOC Expansion: SEDAN[I MAQQI CAT]TABBOTT AVVI DERCMASOC Macalister/1945 50--51 reading only |
| McManus, D. (1991): | SEDAN[--]TABBOTTAVVIDERCMASOC Expansion: SEDAN [--]TABBOTT AVVI DERCMASOC McManus/1991 65 reading only |
| Gippert, J. (1997): | SEDAN[--] ||| [D!]ABBOT ||| TAVVIDE[RCMASOC Expansion: SEDAN[--] [D!]ABBOTT AVVI DE[RCMASOC Gippert/Web Ogham 46 reading only [Gippert 46] |
| Orientation: | vertical up along down |
| Position: | n/a ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | cut Macalister/1945, 51: `the inscription is cut'. |
| Date: | 550 - 900 (Ziegler/1994) |
| Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
| Ling. Notes: | McManus/1991, 87, 89,96, 103, 014, 115, 118, 120. |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 51: `It is quite legible except the R, in which R5 is broken, and the following C, which is spalled away except the distal ends'. Gippert/Web, Ogham 46: `-AS- in the last name cannot be ascertained because the letters are hidden by the ring that is used to hold the fragment. The dexter angle could not be documented by a photograph because of the position of the stone in the basement of the Dublin National Museum'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |