What is recorded here

Kilmoon West holds a carved arch keystone bearing a mitred head, likely the same stone described in 1839 near Kilmoon church. The fragment now lies buried in rubble inside a crude drystone shelter at Tobermoon holy well, beside a doorway hinge and older wall remains. Whatever building it once crowned has vanished, leaving only the head, the hinge and human memory behind.

Situated within a crude suboval drystone structure at Tobermoon holy well (CL008-049003-), which abuts a larger rectangular building (CL008-049005-) to the NW. Several architectural fragments are visible on the ground in the overgrown and rubble-filled interior of this suboval structure. One stone fragment is a hinge for a doorway. Another is a possible arch keystone (L 0.54m; Wth 0.22m; T 0.27m) which incorporates a human head carved in relief near the end of one of its long sides; the other end is chamfered. This may be the same stone described in the OS Letters (1839) as 'a stone near [Kilmoon church (CL008-049001-)] exhibiting a mitred head' (Comber 1997, 70), and by Westropp (1900-1902, 132) as a 'carved corbel, with a bishop's head'. Kilmoon church (CL008-049001-) lies c. 157m to the ENE. The following images have been uploaded: CL008-049006-_01.jpg Carved stone with mitred head CL008-049006-_02.jpg Doorway hinge Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 14 December 2022

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