The cross-slab is now stored in the disused schoolhouse across the road from Lemanaghan church (OF015-004003-) & graveyard (OF015-004004-). A monastery at Lemanaghan (Liath Manchán) was founded in the 7th century by Manchán whose feastday falls on the 24th of January. Early Christian cross-slab decorated with a cross-potent carved in relief which was discovered during conservation works on the church between 2002-06 (Quinlan and Moss 2007, 68). According to wikipedia a cross potent, also known as a crutch cross, is a form of heraldic cross with crossbars at the four ends. In French, it is known as croix potencée, in German as a Krückenkreuz, all translating to “crutch cross”. Potent is an old word for a crutch, from a late Middle English alteration of Old French potence “crutch”[a] The term potent is also used in heraldic terminology to describe a T-shaped alteration of vair,[1] and potenté is a line of partition contorted into a series of ‘T’ shapes.
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