Identifier: journalofroyalso1915roya (find matches)
Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers
Subjects: Ireland -- Genealogy Ireland -- History Societies, etc Ireland -- Antiquities Societies, etc
Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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oville the remains consist of a stone-roofedtomb in the graveyard and a cross near the entrance gate ; there arealso several monumental stones of late date. The cross is 10 feetin height; it is without carving, but has a pierced ring and a hole4 inches in diameter through the top and rather to one side. Thishole is a curious feature, and may be a survival from the earlierhole-stones. The crosses at Bonamargy Friary, Layd near Cushen-dall, as well as one found in fragments at Moone Abbey, County J- Illustrated in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol. 4 (new series), p. 19 PROCEEDINGS 191 Kildare, are perforated, but in all these cases the hole passes throughthe centre. The pillar stone at Castledermot, County Kildare, may-be a transitional form ; it has a cross incised on one side and a holethrough the centre of the cross. The High cross of Drumcliff alsois perforated, but the hole being small easily escapes notice, andmay have been purposely made inconspicuous. It passes beliind the
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MoviLLE—Cross at Cooley(From Photograph by H. S. Crawford) moulduig of one angle of the shaft near the head, and correspondswith that class of hole-stone in which the aperture is made diagonallythrough an angle. The base of Cooley cross is also curious ; a large flat stone witha perforation about 4 inches in diameter near one end. It maypossibly have stood as a hole-stone itself before being used as asupport for the cross. The cross-inscribed piUar near Stroove occupies a picturesque 192 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND and retired situation on the sea shore half a mUe or more north ofInishowen Head. The cHfifs here are lofty, and it is necessary todescend by a steep path from the road above. The pillaris 5 feet in height, and has on one side a Latin cross 15 incheslong formed of grooves with circular ends ; lying round aremany white pebbles brought from the strand and left by visitors.Near the stone is a little spring dedicated to St Colum Cille, and

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