This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...that on the stone of St. Brecan, at' the Seven Churches in Aranmore, and on 148 THE GREEK CROSS OF INCHANGOILL. many ancient Irish tombstones. It is said that a similar cross exists at Ard-Oilean, or "High-Island," opposite the coast of Connamara. The stone altar of this church is still perfect, and measures 4 feet 7 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...that on the stone of St. Brecan, at' the Seven Churches in Aranmore, and on 148 THE GREEK CROSS OF INCHANGOILL. many ancient Irish tombstones. It is said that a similar cross exists at Ard-Oilean, or "High-Island," opposite the coast of Connamara. The stone altar of this church is still perfect, and measures 4 feet 7 inches, by 3 feet 4 inches wide, and 1 foot 10 inches high. Upon it are two remarkable indented stones: one has an oblong quadrilateral hollow, 6f inches long, by 4 wide; the other, placed immediately under the small, eastern, roundheaded single light, is a smooth stone, with an oval-shaped depression, 6 by 4 inches in diameter, capable of holding the closed fist--probably a very early font. It belongs to that class of cupped stones called in Aran, where they abound, Bullauns, and of which there are many at Glendalough, in Wicklow, of which "the deer stone" may be cited as an example.--See page 164. On a stone of the ancient flagged way leading up to the western end of this church, is carved a square cross, with fishtail terminations, like those on Lugnaedon's stone, and which is, no doubt, of great antiquity also. Outside the north-east angle is a piece of square masonry, 10 feet by 7 feet 8 inches, and about 4 feet high, believed to be the tomb of Muirgehas O'Nioc, Archbishop of Tuam, who died here in 1128. O'Flaherty, in whose footsteps we have been treading, wrote thus of this island in 1684: --" Inis an Ghoill, so called of a certain holy person who there lived of old, known only by the INCHANGOILL. 149 name of An Gall Craibhtheach, i. e. the devout foreigner; for Gall (i. e. of the Gallick nation), they call every foreigner. So Inis an Ghoill, or the foreigner's island, between Ross and Moycullen barony on Lough Or...
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