Terally bay

Lying on the western shore of Luce Bay in Dumfries and Galloway, Terally Bay runs between Myroch Point in the north then south to Terally Point.
It is 2 miles (3 km) west of Port Logan which is on the west Irish Sea side of the peninsula.
Stopped off returning from a most interesting talk where we lunched first at the Ship Inn at Drummore.
The subject was :- the Monogram Stones of Kirkmadrine, which are remarkable for their age and style of sculpture.
If the antiquaries are right, they were erected there about A.D. 450, and are the earliest inscribed Christian gravestones in Scotland.
They mark the common grave and give the names of three priests.
They were set up long before Scotland became a kingdom and they remained undisturbed through the political storms and religious changes of fourteen hundred years.
About 1850 they were taken up and moved away. The two taller stones became the gate posts of the churchyard, and continued in that service for forty years.
The third stone disappeared, and became known as the lost stone of Kirkmadrine. This long lost and yet well-known stone was found at last in 1916 built into one of our gate posts.
This discovery another story.