What is recorded here

A year or so before the French invasion, the Rev. Eugene Magowan raised a chapel in Doobally. The stone that marked it now leans in the porch of Tullaghan church, its Latin praise broken on one side as though time had bitten through the vow. Beside it sits a bullaun stone worn by generations of kneeling water, both rescued from the same forgotten ringfort and set where congregations can still touch the hands that first shaped them.

A limestone plaque (dims 1m x 0.34-0.38m) from a ringfort in Doobally, probably (LE001-035----), has been installed on the wall of the porch of Tullaghan Roman Catholic church. It is broken on the right-hand side and has an incised inscription in Latin commemorating Rev. Eugene Magowan who founded a chapel in 177?. The bullaun stone (LE001-063001-) from the same location is also in the porch. The inscription reads: VOS OMNES QVI TRANSI (TIS OR) / ATE PRO REVERENDO PA (TR) / E EVGENIO MAGOWAN HVIVS (CAP) / PILLAE DONDITORE ANN (od) / …OMNI 177(?) (Ó Gallachair 1958, 28 9) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 11 December 2015

Dated to the early medieval period, likely between the 7th and 10th centuries, the inscribed stone may have originally served a commemorative or ritual function, possibly linked to the nearby ringfort. Its relocation to the church suggests later Christian reuse or protection, though specific folklore or detailed prehistoric meaning is not recorded.

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