Elias wrote:
Thank you very much. Yes it's for a headstone.
But I noticed on one of the pictures. The reading was:
I NDHIL CHUIMHNE AR
There is space between in the middle of NDHILCHUIMHNE
in your reply there is no space
Are both correct?
Firstly, your spelling here is incorrect. There should be no
h after the
d in
ndil.
Secondly, though
dil and
cuimhne are two discrete words, where an adjective precedes a noun in Irish orthography, as is the case here, the two are typically written as a single word. You're right in noticing that the two are not uncommonly separated by a space, I don't know if this is a tolerated variant in the orthography of any regional dialect, but I suspect it is simply a common mistake. Whatever the case, the correct transcription is as Labhrás has given you:
i ndilchuimhneNote that this is all in lower case. If you want to capitalise it, the following is the correct way to do so:
I nDilchuimhneAnd, even if you intend to render it in "all caps", the
n would typically still be left small in the orthography:
I nDILCHUIMHNE