LBOID/1

Corpus Refs:	Macalister/1945:366 Nash-Williams/1950:148
Site:	LBOID
Discovery:	first mentioned, 1696 Lhuyd, E.
History:	Owen/1896, 133, notes that the stone was seen by both Edward Lhuyd and Lewis Morris, the latter recording that in 1742 it was `on the ground sill of Llanboydy church door'. By the time of Owen's writing, however, the stone was lost, a fact confirmed by Nash-Williams/1936, 79, Macalister/1945, 350, and Nash-Williams/1950, 111.
Geology:
Dimensions:	0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:	Lost (present 1742, missing 1896)
Location:	Last seen by Lewis Morris, and a forlorn call for a search is first made by Owen/1896, 133. Lewis Morris in 1742 stated that the stone was `on the ground sill of Llanboydy church door' (Owen/1896, 133). The stone has since been lost.
Form:	Indeterminate
Condition:	n/a , n/a
Folklore:	none
Crosses:	none
Decorations:	no other decoration

Inscriptions

Morris, L. (1742):	ECHAD{I} \| FI[--]ITOCUS Expansion: ECHADI \| FILI ITOCVS Translation: (The stone) of Echadus (PN), son of Itocus (PN). Nash-Williams/1950 111 reading only Owen/1896 133 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):	ECHAD{I} \| FI[-]I+OCUS Expansion: ECHADI \| FILI + OCVS Macalister/1945 350 reading only

Orientation:	vertical down
Position:	n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:	ind
Date:	466 - 599 (Nash-Williams/1950) 600 - 733 (Steer/1969)
Language:	Latin (rcaps)
Ling. Notes:	none
Palaeography:	Nash-Williams/1950, 111: `Roman capitals, with horizontal final -I (in l. 1) and rounded U (?)'. In the drawing the I in FI is considerably smaller than the F, and the T, if that is the letter intended, has a cross bar half-way up the ascender, and not at the top. Thus Macalister/1945, 350, reads this as a cross, rather than a T.
Legibility:	some From the drawing in Owen/1896, 133, the first line appears clear, while the second line is drawn with a gap; the letters themselves, however, are difficult to make sense of.
Lines:	2
Carving errors:	0
Doubtful:	no

Echadi (Language: Goidelic; Gender: male)
Steer/1969, 129, referring to the name ECHODI, from Iona, and citing a personal comment from K.H. Jackson, states `linguistically the name would not be older than the later sixth century nor later than the quite early eighth. Echodi has the Latin genitive termination in -i. There are several characters Latinised as Echodius in Adamnan, and the genitive occurs once as Echudi. The genuine Irish (sixth/seventh-century) form of the nominative occurs in the Appendix to Adamnan, Echoid...the genitive in O.Ir was Echdach (Latin Echodi and Echudi are based on the nominative), the name must have been something like Equodix, genitive Equodicos, in primitive Celtic'.
The name is Goidelic.