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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: The Inchagoill Stone Alternative Name: The Luguaedon Stone, St Patrick's StoneCountry: Ireland (Republic of)
NOTE: This site is 0.21 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Co. Mayo Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Oughterard
Map Ref: M126494
Latitude: 53.487564N Longitude: 9.317417W
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| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Early Christian Sculptured Stone in Co. Mayo
Inchagoille Island (Island of the Foreigner) is located in Lough Corrib some 5 miles N of Oughterard, on the borders of Counties Mayo and Galway. [It can only be reached by boat from Oughterard or Cong]. On the island there is a 5th century Latin inscribed stone and two ruined, roofless churches. St Patrick is thought to have founded a church here in the 5th century CE.
The inscribed stone, at the front of the church, is 75 cm tall and marks the site of an early Christian burial, and probably dates from c500 CE. It has a Latin inscription in memory of LIA LUGUAEDON, son of MACCI MENUEH, who may have been the nephew of St Patrick. This stone is regarded as one of the oldest Christian inscriptions in western Europe.
St Patrick's church/oratory (Tempall Phadraig) is ruined and roofless, but has some good Romanesque carvings. A second roofless church called Tempall na Naoimh (Church of the Saints) dates from the 9th-10th century and has some Romanesque carved stone heads around it's arched doorway. Inside, two small cross-incised stones stand against the wall and there are also some carvings on the stonework itself.
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