What is recorded here

Lemanaghan means grey monk, and the name still fits the quiet town where a seventh-century monastery once stood. Manchán founded the place, and people still mark his feastday on January 24th. His church is gone, but a cross-slab from that time survives inside a disused schoolhouse. A child may have traced the carved cross with a dirty finger, not knowing they touched the edge of an old worship.

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 currently located inside the disused Lemanaghan schoolhouse. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 25 April 2014

Probably from the early medieval period, associated with the monastery founded by St Manchán in the 7th century. The cross-slab likely served a liturgical or commemorative function, reflecting Christian devotion and monastic activity in the area.

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