What is recorded here

Inscribed stone in Kilpatrick (kinalmeaky By.) stands in County Cork, Ireland. An unknown person may have touched its cross, watched the river or remembered a loss. The stone still holds that much of the world inside its quiet edge.

Discovered 1890 in field known as the "Garden", west of Downdaniel Castle(3057) (Gillman 1897, 321). Gillman describes the stone as 'two and a half feet high' and 'carved on one side with a double interlaced cross and on the other with a human face above a long plain cross' and also suggeststhat it 'may have formed a burial'. The stone is now set into the wall of an outhouse NW of Downdaniel Bridge and on W bank of Brinny River and only one side is visible. This has an incised representation of a human head and the outline of a long garment. A line from the chin to the hemline forms the shaft of a Latin cross somewhat suggestive of medieval 'head-slabs'.(Hunt 1974, ) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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