What is recorded here

That cross-pillar still stands in Rathmullen, though it was torn from Killycolman pasture and carried to St. Joseph's Church. It is a smooth stone slab, tall enough to touch at shoulder height, with a faded circular mark and the ghost of a cross on one face. It may have guarded an entrance now lost beneath grass, or it may have marked a boundary nobody remembers. Either way, it was moved because people still wanted to see it, not forget it.

Marked as a standing stone on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps, this slab (DG028-012001-) has now been removed to the grounds of St. Joseph's Church in Rathmullen (DG037-023). It consists of a regularly shaped slab 1.6m high x 0.36m wide by 0.2m thick. On one face a Maltese cross inside a circle has been incised, but only faint traces of the upper portions can be seen. It was originally located at the position outlined above, allegedly beside the entrance to a Man-made underground passage (DG028-012002-) (NMI) but no trace of this is visible now. The site is in gently rising pasture. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Probably dating to the early Christian period (5th–9th centuries AD), the cross-inscribed pillar likely served a religious or commemorative function, reflecting the spread of Christianity in the region. Such stones often bore inscriptions or symbols associated with local saints, landowners, or territorial markers.

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