What is recorded here

In the 7th century, Manchán founded a monastery at Lemanaghan, embedding the site in early Christian devotion. A cross-inscribed slab from that era still bears traces of an Irish inscription, now resting inside a disused schoolhouse. The building has changed hands and purposes, but the stone remains, waiting for someone to read what it once recorded.

A monastery at Lemanaghan (Liath Manchán) was founded in the 7th century by Manchán whose feastday is celebrated on the 24th of January (Ó Riain 2011, 429). Early Christian cross-inscribed slab with traces of an Irish inscription currently located in disused Lemanaghan schoolhouse. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 25 April 2014

Early Christian cross-slab, likely dating to the 7th–9th century, associated with the monastery of St Manchán. Such slabs often served as grave markers or liturgical objects and may have had both Christian and symbolic prehistoric significance.

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