What is recorded here

Stone 63 in Garfinny graveyard is a small straight sided sandstone block, thirty-six centimetres long, marked with a roughly carved Latin cross. It joined fourteen previously unrecorded crosses during the 2010 survey, suggesting an older burial pattern hidden beneath the familiar grave field. The cross may have pointed someone toward a forgotten person, a family line or a moment when the land still remembered its own dead.

In 2010 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details about cross-inscribed stone No. 63 in Garfinny graveyard (KE043-228----): 'Fourteen previously unrecorded cross-slabs or simple cross inscribed headstones were plotted and recorded in Garfinny. These crosses comprise eight small unhewn stones inscribed with crosses (59, 61, 63, 77, 95, 203, 530 and 708); five 18th / 19th century cross inscribed slabs (98, 130, 347, 449 & 712) and one late stone cross (181). Cross-slab (63), small straight sided sandstone, 0.36m x 0.26m x 0.10m, with a roughly carved Latin cross' (Dunne 2010, 16). See attached photograph courtesy of Laurence Dunne Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 29 June 2022

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