Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Cooly, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooly
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 55.18885, -7.06108
- SMR number
- DG021-008012-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The early ecclesiastical site here consists of a sub-rectangular shaped graveyard inside of which are a number of earlier features. To the W outside the entrance to the graveyard (DG021-008001-) is a tall, plain, ringed high-cross (DG021-008005-). Inside the graveyard are the remains of two churches (DG021-008002-/003-) and a mortuary house or tomb shrine (DG021-008004-). One of the churches served as a medieval parish church (Leslie 1937, 265).
Incised ringed cross on an upright slab (H 0.32m; Wth 0.29m) with T-shaped base exposed after a recent graveyard clean-up scheme carried out in 2010. This cross-slab is located immediately N of the S wall of the South Church (DG021-008002-) in Cooly graveyard (DG021-008001-). The site is located on excellent land sloping to Lough Foyle to the E and is traditionally claimed to have been founded by St. Patrick. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 399; Lacy et. al. 1983, 261).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 22 October 2015
References
Leslie, J. 1937 Derry clergy and parishes. Enniskillen.
Lacy, B. with Cody, E., Cotter, C., Cuppage, J., Dunne, N., Hurley, V., O'Rahilly, C., Walsh, P. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1983 Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century A.D. Lifford. Donegal County Council.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.