What is recorded here

Inis Oírr is a small island off County Galway where a cross-inscribed stone still sits above the window arch inside the east gable of the church. The stone is fifty-eight centimetres wide and twenty-four centimetres tall, marked with a small equal-armed cross whose ends widen like flat hands. It may have been set there long before the present church took shape, carried through rebuilding and forgotten by everyone except the walls.

A cross-inscribed stone (Wth 0.58m; H 0.24m) is visible above the arch of the window on the internal face of the E gable of the church (GA120-002001-). The cross is a small roughly equal-armed cross with expanded terminals (information from Dr J. Waddell). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 January 2016

The cross-inscribed stone in Inis Oírr likely dates to the early medieval period, associated with Christian symbolism and possibly used as a devotional or boundary marker. Such crosses are often linked to monastic or ecclesiastical sites and may reflect local Christian traditions or folklore.

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