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Cathedral Close, CLOGHER, BT76 0AJ

Looking ESE from Fintona Road

Located at Main Street, it sells its own unique brand of ice cream, not may I add, as large as the cone standing on the pavement

It is located on the main street

It is located along the main street

Located on the main street; it was once used as the Orange and Black Hall. Displaying a charm of its own, it retains original features like the sliding sash windows

Text copied from an adjoining panel: This stone is known as the Clogh-Oir or Golden Stone from which Clogher may have derived its name. The Clogh-Oir was one of the three stones of Erin (the other two being the Stone of Destiny and the Crom Cruach) and was famous at an oracle at Clogher in pagan times. There is a tradition that the Clogh-Oir was consulted by Concobar MacNessa, High King of Ulster. A 15th Century description is 'Clogh-Oir, a stone round which was gold, which the heathen had worshipped and out of a devil used to speak. Cermand Cestach was his name and it was the chief idol of the north, this is the short stone on thy right hand as thou enterest the temple of Clochar and the places of the joints of the gold and silver still remain on it'. It is uncertain if this is the original Clogh-Oir, some authorities consider that it may be the lintel from the door of an 8th or 9th Century Church. The stone stood against the north wall of the Cathedral until 1929 when it was brought into the porch for safe keeping

Located along Main Street

It is located along Main Street

It is located along Main Street

The following text was copied from the adjoining display: The date of this Stone Cross is 7th Century and certainly not later than the 8th Century. The recent discovery of a fish near its base (on the other side) while it was still in the Churchyard speaks of very early origin. Some authorities have claimed that it is a sundial but the evidence is very strongly in favour of a cross. It seems reasonable to assume that the head carved in relief on it is that of Christ. The body is missing or at most suggested, this stone was brought inside the Cathedral in order to preserve it against the elements in June 1969.