GA040-013002 Cross Inscribed Stone - Inchogoill.

This pillar stone, of hard greyish Silurian stone, stands to the SW of Teampull Phádraig (GA040-013001-). It is slender and four-sided, widening appreciably towards the base (0.9m high, 0.16m by 0.15m widening to 0.3m). The pillar-stone has seven small equal-armed crosses with bifurcated ends deeply carved on it, two on each of its faces except that to the N on which there is only one. There is also a two-line inscription clearly cut on its S face, reading perpendicularly towards the ground. In twenty-three Old Latin characters it reads: LIE LUGUAFDON MACCI MENUEH’ (Rynne 1995). The inscription may date from as early as the sixth century and is probably the oldest extant example of an Irish inscription in Latin characters (ibid., 210)