English: A close information panel reads: “Geologically different from other rocks in the area, St. Declan’s Stone, according to ancient folklore, miraculously floated across the ocean, carrying St. Declan’s Bell after his servant forgot to pack it. He decreed that whereever the stome came to rest, would be the place, where he would set his Episcopal residence and hence Ardmore became Ireland’s first Christian settlement in the early 5th Century. Numerous healing virtues are attributed to it and it is a place of special interest on St. Declan’s Patron Day, July 24th each year.”