Scoil: St Columb's Moville
- Suíomh:
- Bun an Phobail, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Múinteoir: Hamilton Stewart
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Ar an leathanach seo
- (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)If you will examine the recumbent stone you will see the old pagan hole at one end, apparently the stone, now a cross, was once as broad as the storm on which it stands.
This was cut down until it became what it is today. The work of mason is distinct he has carried out four semicircular holes in order to mark the arms of the cross.
But above them is the old pagan hole still preserved. You can see that it is not part of the cross as fashioned later. It is not in the middle, it is round, it is a barbaric.
If there is truth in this explanation it surely makes our Cooley cross somewhat unique. If there is any other in Ireland which is in this manner composed of two pagan "holed stones.'
Votive stones are of course, still placed in those holes and it seems to me that the most difficult hole to reach the old pagan hole is the one most generally used. There could be no better way of transforming a(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)- Bailitheoir
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- Bun an Phobail, Co. Dhún na nGall