The inscription reads OROIT AR SCANDLAN, an Old Irish formula meaning "a prayer for Scandlan", and it is one of the more quietly arresting objects you can encounter at this ancient site. What makes it particularly curious is what it lacks: there is no cross carved anywhere on the surface, which sets it apart from most commemorative slabs of its type and period.The slab, measuring 1.15 metres long and 0.87 metres high, is set sideways into the external face of the wall of Teaghlach Éinne, the early ecclesiastical enclosure associated with Saint Enda, the sixth-century monastic founder whose name the settlement, Cill Éinne, preserves. The stone is thought to have been reused during the earliest building phase of the church, meaning it was already old when the builders incorporated it, perhaps repurposed from an earlier grave marker or commemorative context. The person it names, Scandlan, is otherwise unknown, but the formula itself was a common one in early Christian Ireland: a short, urgent petition carved in stone and left to accumulate the prayers of anyone who passed by and read it. That the stone survives in situ, still legible in the wall where it was set, gives it a particular quality of persistence.