RFILD/2

Corpus Refs:	Macalister/1945:244
Site:	RFILD
Discovery:	in/on structure, 1879 Brash, R.R.
History:	Macalister/1945, 239--241: `taken from a soutterrain on this townland and used in building a cottage in the village of Laharan...removed to Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare ... [had] served as a lintel over the front door' of a certain Patrick Quirk.
Geology:
Dimensions:	2.13 x 0.0 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:	inc
Location:	other Macalister/1945, 240: `removed to Lord Dunraven's mansion at Adare'.
Form:	plain
Condition:	complete , inc
Folklore:	none
Crosses:	none
Decorations:	no other decoration

Inscriptions

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):	COILLABBOTASMAQICORBBI \| MAQIMOCOIQERAI Expansion: COILLABBOTAS MAQI CORBBI MAQI MOCOI QERAI Macalister/1945 240 reading only
McManus, D. (1991):	COILLABBOTASMAQICORBI \| MAQIMOCOIQERAI Expansion: COILLABBOTAS MAQI CORBI MAQI MOCOI QERAI McManus/1991 67 reading only

Coillabbotas (Language: Goidelic; Gender: male)
McManus/1991, 54: `The most interesting example of this type of relationship is surely provided by inscriptions 243 [this stone] and 244 [RFILD/2] from a souterrain in Rockfield, Co. Kerry (MAQI-RITTE MAQI COLABOT [MAQI MOCO QERAI] and COILLABBOTAS MAQI CORBI MAQI MOCOI QERAI) the former of which, even if the restoration is in large part inferential, may record the stone (i.e. assuming COILLABBOTAS and COLABOT to be the same person) of the person commemorated in the latter and would thus confirm O and OI as interchangable spellings of the dipthong, not dialectal variants, as well as showing an interesting linguistic development within a single generation, viz the apocope of the final syllable -AS'.
McManus/1991, 103: `COILLABBOTAS ... (Cóelub, gen. and nom. Cóilboth, Cóelbad)'.
Corbbi (Language: Goidelic; Gender: male)
Qerai (Language: Goidelic; Gender: male)
McManus/1991, 111: `QERAI (Cíarraige)'.