Provenance
Discovery: Dsicovered by Wakeman (1882, 750) ‘set on a low mound with a small accumulation of field stones at its base on the same terrace as TYR 019:003, a standing stone’ NISMR: TYR019:002. (Note that there is another townland named Aghascrebagh in the parish of Termonamongan).
Findspot: Aghascrebagh (Achadh Scríobach), Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland (National Grid Ref: H6177783903)
Last recorded location(s): In situ, where it was examined and recorded by members of the OG(H)AM project in July 2022.
Support
Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record Number: TYR019:002
Object type: Pillar
Material: Schist-like stone
Dimensions: H 1.45 × W 0.50 × D 0.45 m
Condition: ‘This is a low, flattish-topped stone…very regular and straight-sided’ (NISMR: TYR019:002). Macalister (1945, 305) noted that the stone had fallen sometime before 1945 and had been re-erected. The inscription is quite weathered and the arris is damaged, especially towards the top of the stone.
Inscription
Text field: The inscription runs up the SE angle.
Letters: The strokes appear to have been pocked but it is difficult to be certain due to weathering.
Edition
Ogham text: ᚇᚑᚈᚓᚈᚈᚑ̣ ᚋᚐᚊᚔ̣ ᚋ̣ᚐ̣ᚌ̣ᚂ̣ᚐ̣ᚅ[ᚔ(?)]
Transcription: DOTETTỌ MAQỊ ṂẠG̣ḶẠN[I(?)]
Critical apparatus:
- The first two vowels (o and E) are a little damaged but not really in doubt. Macalister’s (1945, 305) faint final -O of the first name, however, is quite unclear. There are faint traces of the final -I of MAQI. 2. Macalister (1945, 305) tentatively read the last, especially weathered and damaged, name as MAGLANI. Examination of the 3d data suggests a slanted letter or letters from the M-aicme following MAQI. This could well be MAGL (with slanted L strokes) or, less likely, the remains of an R. Traces of possibly 5 strokes survive to the right of the stem-line but the left side is less clear and the arris itself is damaged from here up.
Translation
of Doith? son of [?]
Commentary
Regarding the name DOTETTO, Ziegler (1994, 169) suggests a possible i-stem, later attested as Dot/Doith ‘fast, active’ (CGH S. 590; cf. Dotach, Dotchaid, CHG S. 598f).
References
- Macalister 1945, 305
- Wakeman 1882, 750-753
- Ziegler 1994, 169