'Formerly standing beside another stone (at a distance of 1' 6"), uninscribed, on the farm called Old Mills, south of the village of Donard '(Macalister 1945, 52); (Corlett and Weaver 2002, 541). With permission of the landowner, we visited the original site in September 2010 on a scanning trip to the area. It is located at the top of a slope in the south corner of a field south of the farmhouse in the townland of Ballylion Lower. The remaining stone has no visible inscription and is approximately 1.37m high.

Monument

'Rectangular block of stone', 1.52m x 0.69m x 0.53m (converted from Macalister 1945, 52).

Text

up-top 'dexter angle of main face... The first Q is flaked, and the C is practically worn away' (Macalister 1945, 52) 'The inscription is much worn and damaged... After it turns on to the top [after KOI] nothing definite can be stated about the inscription' (Macalister 1897, 77).

Transliteration

IAQ̣INI KOỊ/ ṂẠQ̣Ị ṂỤC̣[OI]

Translation

Commentary

The personal name here may be formed from iach, gen. of éo 'salmon', plus a diminutive suffix (Ziegler 1994, 186). Hypercorrect Q for C is also found, for example, in CIIC 40. INEQAGLAS (Enechglas) (McManus 1991, 121-2).
'KOI, which is invariably written with the first supplementary character and is alone among formula words in not being attested later, has been explained as a word defining locality, 'here', analogous to HIC IACIT in the British inscriptions though it is never used in these ' (McManus 1991, 119).
cf. CIIC 22. Colbinstown IV: EGNI KOI MAQI MUC[ ... ].

Locations

Found

Discovered standing beside another (uninscribed) stone on a farm called 'Old Mills', south of the village of Donard (Macalister 1945, 52; Corlett and Weaver 2002, 541), in townland of Ballylion Lower and barony of Lower Talbotstown. The find location of this stone may be accessed via the National Monuments Service Historic Environment viewer on www.archaeology.ie. (GPS: -6.633596,53.009083)

Original

Find location possibly original site

Last recorded

Located on the village green since 1995, having had three previous locations. The present location of this stone may be accessed via the National Monuments Service Historic Environment viewer on www.archaeology.ie. (GPS: -6.613237,53.021622)