What is recorded here

Stone chipping and salt air threatened the cross and its two sculpted guardians at the old Churchland Quarters site, so people moved them into a covered area beside Carndonagh graveyard. The sculpture once faced east with a human figure and south with an abstract design, flanking the high cross like quiet sentinels. Now the sea keeps taking land instead of memory, and the stones remain visible rather than buried beneath forgetting.

This monument number records the original location of a stone sculpture, one of two (the other is DG011-035008-) flanking a high cross (DG011-035005-), a National Monument in state ownership (no. 271). The location is indicated as ‘Cross’ on the 1836 and 1907 OS 6-inch maps. The high cross and two stone sculptures were moved to protect them from erosion. They were moved to a covered area located immediately to the E of Carndonagh graveyard (DG011-035006-). The present location of these monuments is recorded under the numbers: DG011-035009-; DG011-035010-; DG011-035011-, where descriptions of the monuments can be read. Attached images: DG011-035007-_01 Stone sculpture –E face DG011-035007-_02 Stone sculpture –S face (abstract design); E face (human figure) Date of revised upload: 8 February 2018

Likely dating to the early medieval period, this stone sculpture may have originally formed part of a high cross complex, potentially associated with Christian worship or commemoration. Such sculptures often carried symbolic or narrative carvings, though specific meaning or folklore related to this example is not recorded.

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