The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Ronan (medieval)
Monastic Irish site, former
A 7thc. foundation, although much of the remaining fabric of the church dates to the 15thc. A number of Romanesque fragments are kept in a stone store at the site. Two further carved stones are now held in the Fermanagh County Museum. These are a rectangular limestone block carved with a ecclesiastical figure, and a corbel/section of cornice carved with an exhibitionist figure. In 1894 the stone carved with the ecclesiastical figure was recorded as standing in the graveyard 'about ten yards to the north east of one of the walls of St Ronan's church' (Dagg 1894, 265). The carving of the exhibitionist figure was discovered built into the core of the S wall of the Church (Hickey 1976, 66).
In 2003 two carved stones forming a Crucifixion panel were rediscovered during building work to the gateway to Aghalurcher graveyard. (Stalley 2009)