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Cross in Cinn Aird Thoir (tc Cinn Aird)

Cross

What is recorded here

Cinn Aird Thoir holds a red sandstone cross slab that marks grave 391, its carved line still visible beside the buried dead. The stone may have been cut locally, carried through rain and handling, then set into Kilkis soil as a boundary between memory and forgetting. It does not need a grand story because it performs a human one: somebody loved the dead person enough to shape stone, place it at a hole in the earth, and leave it exposed to time.
In 2011 a graveyard survey carried out by Ann Frykler and Robert Hanbidge of Headland Archaeology Ltd. recorded the following details about a possible cross (Miscellaneous No. 02): ‘Cross slab carved from old red sandstone with inscribed cross, also forming gravemarker to Grave No. 391’ (Hanbidge 2011, 12). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Robert Hanbidge Date of upload: 1 July 2022

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