What is recorded here

Fourteenth-century hands shaped two figures into the slab before anyone knew whether they were saints, mourners or children. That uncertainty still lives beneath the chisel work. The church reused the fragment in a baptistry, placing old mystery inside new ritual. Tralee did not lose the slab or hide it behind glass. It gave the unknown figures a repeated human role: witnessing birth, naming and the continuation of life.

This record is for a 14th century slab bearing two figures which is mounted on the internal E wall of the babtistry on the W side of the Church of St. John the Baptist. The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry. Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. Date of upload: 25 January 2012

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