What is recorded here

A broken-armed cross is carved into a wide shale slab now buried beneath the walking path between St. Patrick’s Church and Templenaneeve. People have trod that sacred mark for generations, smoothing its edges while believing they were merely following an ordinary road. The church path may have been built deliberately over the stone, turning worship into repetition and hiding the cross inside everyday movement.

This is one of three cross-inscribed stones (see also GA040-013013- and GA040-01314-) found by Higgins (1987, vol. II, 285, no. 16) 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-). This example consists of a large subrectangular slab of shale (L 0.9m; Wth 1.18m); parts of it are embedded beneath the adjoining paving slabs. It bears a single-line Latin cross with slightly splayed terminals roughly in its centre. One terminal on the arm of the cross has been broken away. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 1 February 2018

Date likely to the early medieval period, associated with Christian symbolism and possibly used as a waymarker or memorial. The cross may reflect the influence of monastic activity on the island, linked to the nearby monastery of Inishkeel.

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