What is recorded here

Kilmacaran is an early church site beside the River Annalee where a decorated sandstone fragment once stood before moving into the National Museum. The surviving piece bears six-petalled rosettes enclosed in circles, one complete and one broken in half. That much is known. What is lost is the taller cross, the hand that cut it, the prayers spoken beside it and the moment it first entered a museum case.

Barron (UJA 1942, 120-1) identified a decorated stone at a possible early church site at Kilmacaran in a small hollow beside the River Annalee. (see CV 023-02501-). 'Small piece of sandstone, obviously the remains of a longer, though not wider slab'. Decoration on only one face. Lightly inscribed 'groups of six-petalled rosettes enclosed in circles. Of these one complete and one half rosette remain'. Now in the National Museum.

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