| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:App. 7 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 48 |
| Site: | TOURP |
| Discovery: | arch excav, 1944 Duignan, M.V. |
| History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 307: `The stone was found in the summer of 1944 during excavation at the site ... It was a stray find from the rubble around stone no. 40 (the East Cross) [TOURP/8] ... In a photograph possibly dating from the 1960s, preseved in the Dúchas archive (negatives no. 82, 83: see illustrations above [pp. 305, 307], the stone is shown built into the east interior wall of the church, to the right of the plain free-standing cross, in the upper register of slabs. The stone presumably fell out of the wall and disappeared before repair work was done to the east wall in 1986-87'. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1949, 213: `sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.13 x 0.19 x 0.0 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
| Setting: | Lost (present 1960, missing 1986) |
| Location: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 307, shows that the stone was extant when photographed in the 1960s, but was lost by 1986/87. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 307: `The stone is now lost'. |
| Form: | other Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 307: `The stone was a fragment of a slab of unknown form'. |
| Condition: | frgmntry , n/a |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | --]TO[-- Expansion: --]TO[-- Macalister/1949 213 reading only |
| Okasha and Forsyth (2001): | [--]TO[--] Expansion: [--]TO[--] Okasha/Forsyth/2001 308 reading only |
| Orientation: | Indeterminate |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Indeterminate (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 308: `cannot now be interpreted'. |
| Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 308: `The text was in half-uncial script'. CISP: The curved T with flat top-stroke indicates the script to have been half-uncial. |
| Legibility: | poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 307--308: `fragmentary text ... [which] appears in the photograph to be legible'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |