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Extract from the Portsalon Travel Guides:
Two miles north of Rathmullan, on the coast road, a signpost to the left indicates a little track that leads towards the tenth-century
Drumhallach cross slab
, only four and a half feet high. It has delightful carvings of two figures sitting on the arms of the cross sucking away at their thumbs. This curiosity is linked by local folklore with Fionn Mac Cumhaill, who one day burned his thumb while tending to the salmon of knowledge, and immediately stuck it in his mouth - thereafter doing the same whenever he needed to be wise. The lower figures on this front face are harder to make out but are meant to represent bishops.
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