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Kilnasaggart Stone Plaque |
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Written by John McCullagh
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Tuesday, 07 December 2004 |
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A number of our most popular tourist attractions have recently been embellished with informative plaques outlining the significance of each. We believe the information contained is of interest not just to tourists in situ but might indeed help to attract visitors from abroad.
 (Newry Journal readers may be interested to
note the extent to which the views of your author diverge from that
expressed in the final phrase below!)
This is the legend reproduced from that beside Kilnasaggart Stone.
‘This tall granite pillar in the Edenappa
townland marks the site of an early cemetery located on one of
Ireland’s five great roads, the Slighe Midhlachra which ran from near
Drogheda through the Moyry Pass into West Down and perhaps as far as
Dunseverick in north Antrim.
Standing more
than two metres high it is believed to be the earliest
historically-dated inscribed stone in Ireland. A long inscription on
the south-east face between two large crosses records the dedication of
the place to ‘Ternoc son of Ceran Bic (the Little) under the patronage
of Peter the Apostle. Ternoc’s death is recorded in the Annals at 714
or 716 and the pillar can therefore be dated to about 700 A.D.'
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