| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:924A Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 39 |
| Site: | TOURP |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1930 Meagher |
| History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 287: `Meagher's photograph, taken in the early 1930s, shows this stone formng part of the `station' at the west end of the ruined church ... It was seen here by Macalister who described the position as `on a masonry table ... Against the West End of the Oratory, beside the entrance-door' ... This station was dismantled by the OPW and the stone is shown loose in a photograph taken by them in 1944 [shown on p. 289] ... The stone was probably built into the east wall of the church when this was rebuilt during September to December 1944'. |
| Geology: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.775 x 0.21 x 0.13 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | on site Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 286: `The stone is built into the exterior wall of the ruined church'. |
| Form: | cross-slab Macalister/1949, 101: `A rectangular stone'. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 287: `The stone is a complete pillar-shaped slab. The upper portion is carefully shaped'. |
| Condition: | complete , some |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; plain; plain; none; inner curv; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 101: `a plain wheel cross, in cavo rilievo, with a marginal fillet along the top edge'. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 287: `On the visible face there is a plain, ringed Latin cross, carved in relief. Its right and left arms extend to the edges of the stone. Running the whole width of the top of this face is a horizontal band joined to the cross. This is mirrored at the bottom of the cross by a horizontal base joined to the cross'. |
| Duignan, W.V. (1944): | C[--] || NIS Expansion: C[--]NIS Waddell/Holland/1990 179 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | ART || UIR Expansion: ARTUIR Macalister/1949 101 reading only |
| Okasha and Forsyth (1996): | […] || N[..] Expansion: [...]N[..] Okasha/Forsyth/2001 288 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated Macalister/1949, 101: `On the background surface, beneath the fillet and above the wheel, there is incised what I take to be the name ART-UIR, divided thus by the head of the cross'. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 287: `The text is incised on the recessed surface in a single horizontal line interrupted by the upper cross-arm, that is, it is set in the top left and right quadrants of the cross'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Indeterminate (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 287: `The text was probably in half-uncial script'. |
| Legibility: | poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 287: `The text ... is now highly deteriorated'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |