Site

Probable early ecclesiastical site - Ard Ferta (Breanainn). Remains inside the walled burial ground include 'a cathedral building [St Brendan's] that can be dated variously from the 11th to the 17th century, based on a study of its architecture. There are two other churches on the site, a late 12th-century church called 'Templenahoe' and a 15th-century chapel called 'Templenagriffin''. It is also the site of a round tower, which fell during a storm in 1771, and two ogham stones (Moore, 2007, 11, 37-8).

Monument

0.86m x 0.23m x 0.15m (measurements taken from pdf of 3d data)

Text

Badly damaged, some text surviving on two angles (up-down?), pocked in bold scores. Second C (or S if read up rather than down) strangely positioned towards the centre of the face, rather than using the natural edge as a stemline like the other surviving letters.

Found

discovered incorporated in the fabric of the N wall of Templenagriffin chapel (Moore, 2007, 37) in the townland of Ardfert and barony of Clanmaurice. (GPS coordinates -9.782728, 52.328817)

Original

Unknown

Last Recorded

Currently housed on site in the restored Templenagriffin chapel. National Monuments Service Historic Environment viewer on www.archaeology.ie. ,

Websites and Online Databases

• CISP (Celtic Inscribed Stones Project): www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/
• MacShamhráin, A.: Monasticon Hibernicum database - Early Christian Ecclesiastical Settlement in Ireland 5th to 12th Centuries: monasticon.celt.dias.ie