What is recorded here

Inchagoill holds three cross-inscribed stones, including this recumbent shale slab embedded in the trackway between St. Patrick’s Church and Templenaneeve. A small one-line Greek cross with wedge-shaped terminals sits off-centre on its surface, marking the stone as much a boundary marker as a worship object. People may have walked past it for generations, reading the cross as a warning, a blessing or a claim of ownership on a narrow island where sacred and ordinary life collided.

This is one of three cross-inscribed stones (see also GA040-013013- and GA040-01315-) found by Higgins (1987, vol. II, 276, no. 7) on Inchagoill. This example, now recumbent, is incorporated into the trackway (GA040-013012-) between the two churches: ‘St. Patrick’s Church’ (GA040-013001-) and ‘Templenaneeve’ (GA040-013004-). It is just 1m away from GA040-013013-. The slab (L 0.4m; Wth 0.73m; T c. 0.05m) is of shale and it bears a small one-line Greek cross with wedge-shaped terminals. The cross is placed off-centre. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 1 February 2018

This cross-inscribed stone likely dates to the early Christian period in Ireland, associated with monastic or ecclesiastical activity. Such stones often served as markers, memorials, or waypoints, and may carry religious or territorial significance.

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