What is recorded here

Mountnugent holds a curving stone wall and a hidden grotto beside St Brigid's Church, where a removed church stone once lay buried under grass and forgetfulness. The fragment survives only through that brief written witness, while the stone itself has vanished again. What remains is a shape in the graveyard, smooth with age and silence, waiting for someone to remember why it was moved.

A field report, dated 2 April 1986, records a grotto in the graveyard to the NE of St Brigid's Church and that 'a stone taken from the possible church site at Aghnaskeagh [see CV042-001001-] was at the base of this grotto. The grotto is set in a curving stone wall , the base of which is rather overgrown.' The 'stone' was located at this time and its present whereabouts are unknown. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 16 January 2017

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