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Errigal Keerogue Cross And Church

St Ciarans Church
Ballygawley
Clogher
Tyrone
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The main item of interest is a stone cross having the features of a Celtic cross inscribed on one face of its imperforate ring, while the other face bears a boss. The cross may never have been finished. Built into the interior north wall of the dilapidated medieval church close by is the replica of a medieval effigy of an apparently male figure whose head, made of a different material and now lost, was sunk into its surface; it may have represented the local saint rather than having been a tombstone.
Description
This ancient ecclesiastical site, providing a splendid view over the Clogher valley from a prominent hill on its northern flank, had  St. Ciaran as its patron saint, though it is believed to have been founded by St. Mac Cairthenn, who died in 506.
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Tyrone County
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