What is recorded here

Inchagoill holds three cross-inscribed stones, including this limestone block now buried as a wall step between St. Patrick’s Church and Templenaneeve. Its crudely pocked Greek cross and four small dots mark it as a reused grave marker, perhaps lifted from an older burial place and dropped into a newer boundary. The island has done what islands do: taken a dead person’s stone and made it part of a living path.

This is one of three cross-inscribed stones (see also GA040-013014- and GA040-01315-) found by Higgins (1987, vol. II, 275, no. 6) on Inchagoill. This example, which consists of a limestone block (L 0.58m; Wth 0.26m; T 0.12-0.13m), now serves as a step in a style in a wall between ‘St. Patrick’s Church’ (GA040-013001-) and ‘Templenaneeve’ (GA040-013004-). It bears a crudely pocked Greek cross and four small dots or pock marks, one between each of the arms of the cross. It most likely is a reused gravestone. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 1 February 2018

Probably dating to the early Christian period (5th–9th centuries AD), the cross-inscribed stone likely served a religious or commemorative function, reflecting the spread of Christianity in the region. Such stones are often associated with monastic activity or as markers for sacred sites.

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