What is recorded here

Cross-inscribed stone in Taghmaconnell is a cross-inscribed stone in Taghmaconnell, County Roscommon, Ireland. A fragment of a cross-inscribed pillow-stone measured 0.41m x 0.32m with a thickness of 0.1m and featured an inscribed cross with expanded terminals. It stood in the graveyard of Taghmaconnell parish church but is now missing.

There was a fragment of a cross-inscribed pillow-stone (dims 0.41m x 0.32m; T 0.1m) that has an inscribed cross with expanded terminals in the graveyard (RO051-053002-) of Taghmaconnell parish church (RO051-053001-), but it is now missing (SMR file). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 3 November, 20124

Likely dating to the early medieval period, the cross-inscribed stone may have had a Christian ritual or commemorative function, possibly associated with the church or local burial practices. Such stones are often linked to early monastic or ecclesiastical sites in Ireland.

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