Inscribed stone in Killymacaran, County Cavan

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What is recorded here

Fragment of a decorated stone discovered in a small hollow beside the River Annalee and on the site of a possible early church (CV023-025001-). According to Barron (1942, 120-1) it was dearly portion of a longer slab, formerly decorated with groups of six-petalled rosettes enclosed in circles, of which only one complete and one half rosette is visible on the surviving fragment. Now in the National Museum.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CV023-025002

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