What is recorded here

Inishvickillane, the southernmost of the Blasket islands, holds an Early Christian monastic settlement where a cross-inscribed stone once marked the oratory wall. The stone is missing now, but it bore a small cross and the name Macrued, proving that people lived, prayed and remembered others on this remote rocky island. Its loss does not erase the fact that the community shaped the place and left a visible sign of their faith.

Inishvickillane, the southernmost of the Blasket islands, lies 7 miles SW of Slea Head and 9 miles from the nearest embarkation point at Dunquin pier. The island has an area of 199 acres and the Early Christian monastic settlement KE061-006---- lies at the SE end of the island, on the E slopes of a rocky buff which rises prominently above the remainder of the island. (6) (KE061-006007-) Macalister (1949, 44) recorded an inscribed stone lying on the S wall of the oratory but this is now missing. It bore a small cross followed by the inscription: OR DO MACRUED Ú DALACH A 2nd stone inscribed with a 'plain cross of 2 lines' lay within the graveyard (Macalister 1902, 46). The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 845. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 8 August 2013

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