What is recorded here

Malin Head, Donegal: A rectangular stone head, four sides dressed, sits on the corner between the south wall and east gable of a shore church below a cliff. A broad D-shaped projection carries a face cut in deep grooves for eyes, nose and mouth. It is not a relic dragged from elsewhere but a made feature of the church itself, perhaps marking a corner, a witness, or a boundary between built place and open sea.

This head was carved on the top stone of the corner between the S wall and the E gable of the church (DG002-002001-) that stands on the shore at the base of a cliff on the N side of Malin Head, Co. Donegal (Donegal Annual 1953-4, 503). It consists of a rectangular block of stone (0.41m × 0.26m × 0.25m), all four sides of which are dressed. On one end there is a broad D-shaped projection on which is incised a human face, the eyes, nose and mouth of which are represented by deep grooves. (NMI Reg. No. 1972:5) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 31 January 2014

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