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This broken slab was found in the 19th-century during grave-digging in the graveyard (SL001-002007-). It is now located in Templenaman church (SL001-002001-).
About one quarter of the inscribed face of this slab (H: 0.825 m, W: 0.25 m, Th: 0.1 m) has been broken off. The surviving incription reads:
AILAD OCUS AR MAELBRIG
ORORC OCUS AR EILEISE.
Translation: ‘name + ending -ailad and for maelbrig[te] …//…ororc and for eileise'.
This is a National Monument (no. 117) in state ownership.
The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in:
Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press.
Date of upload: 16 January 2018
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