Inscribed stone

The National Monuments Service's description

Fragment of a stone described by Robert Cochrane as, 'another curious stone shows parts of two grooves 3/8 inch [0.09m] wide and 5/16 inch [0.08m] deep. The portion remains of the grooves is 2" [0.05m] long, They may have been used for sharpening pointed tools' (Anon. 1913, 48).
This may be the same stone catalogued by Crawford in 1913 as slab (i) and described as a ‘fragment 11 in. [0.28m] by 6½ in. [0.15m], incised with the letters ..td, and below them . . r’ (Crawford 1913, 329). Listed by Macalister in 1949 as slab no. 875 and described as a fragmentary slab with 'the ends of two lines of writing' (Macalister 1949, 80).

See attached 1912 OPW drawing of stone with two incised lines (Anon. 1913, 47).

Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 23 April 2021

References

Crawford, H.S. 1913 A descriptive list of early cross-slabs and pillars. (cont.) Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 43, 151-69, 261-5, 326-34.

Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Anon. 1913 Eighty-First Annual Report of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland with appendices for the year ending 31st March 1913. London. HMSO.