| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:579 |
| Site: | MARLY |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1916 Macalister, R.A.S. |
| History: | Macalister/1949, 31: `Said to have come from an old graveyard on this [Marlay] townland: removed thence to Rokeby Hall, and afterwards deposited in the porch of St. Peter's Church, Drogheda, where it now lies'. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1949, 31: `grit'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.8 x 0.81 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | other Macalister/1949, 31, states that it now lies `in the porch of St. Peter's Church, Drogheda'. |
| Form: | recumbent monument Macalister/1949, 31: `More or less circular slab'. |
| Condition: | incomplete , some The left side of the stone is quite badly damaged. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; straight; bifid; plain; none; none; none; n/a 2: latin; linear; straight; bifid; plain; cruciform; inner curv; none; n/a |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 31: `an enclosing circle, so to call it: two crosses, one with bifid terminals, the other with semi-circular expansions at the ends...and a circular expansion in the centre'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | TNUDACH || COCMANF Expansion: TNUDACH COCMAN F[ILIUS] Expansion: TNUDACH COCMAN F[ECIT] Macalister/1949 31 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; mixed ; separated The inscription is in two lines, one above and one below the crosses, and inside a one line circular margin. |
| Incision: | pocked Macalister/1949, 31: `roughly punched'. |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Latin (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | The letter F may stand for `filius' or `fecit' in which case the inscription could be seen to be in Latin. |
| Palaeography: | Macalister/1949, 31: `Most of the letters have large bifid serifs'. CISP: The inscription is in a very elaborate form of half-uncial. All the letters have decorative bifid serifs, which give the letters an outlandish appearance. The A's are in the `OC' form and the hm are ligatured. |
| Legibility: | good |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |