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The early ecclesiastical site here consists of a sub-rectangular shaped graveyard inside of which are a number of earlier features. The monastery is located on excellent land sloping to Lough Foyle to the E and is traditionally claimed to have been founded by St. Patrick (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 399; Lacy et. al. 1983, 261). A magnetometer survey carried out by the Bernician Studies Group in 2014 in the fields surrounding the churches (DG021-008002-/003-) and graveyard (DG021-008001-) at Cooly revealed the outline of the ecclesiastical enclosure (DG021-008----) of the Early Christian monastery of Cooly (O'Brien and Adams 2014, 4). The graveyard was subject to a clean-up scheme in 2010 which resulted in the discovery of several unrecorded cross-slabs. The Bernician Studies Group carried out a survey inside the graveyard and recorded twenty cross slabs, 10 of which were ringed cross-inscribed slabs. One of these slabs contains an incised ringed cross, with incised shaft and pointed base which has been placed up against S face of N wall of graveyard, 18m W of the NE corner of Cooly graveyard (O'Brien and Adams 2014, 3).
The attached image (DG021-008019-_01.jpg) is a line drawing of the cross-slab taken from Bernician Studies Group 2014 Report on Cooly graveyard.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 22 October 2015
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