What is recorded here

Ballynahinch holds two thin red sandstone slabs, one bearing a small inscribed cross inside Cloheen graveyard. The northern quadrant once kept them in plain view, but that exact spot has slipped from memory. A person may have stood there, traced the cross with a fingernail, and left before the ground changed or the stone moved. What is lost is not the meaning but the witness, the human shadow that stood beside it when the mark was new.

One of two thin red sandstone slabs (dims. (0.52m H x 0.43m Wth x 0.03m T) inside Cloheen graveyard (LI040-115002-) which has a cross (dims. 0.11m H x 0.14m Wth) inscribed into the surface of the stone (pers.comm. 26/05/1986). Unable to locate cross-inscribed stone which was located in N quadrant of graveyard. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 18 June 2019 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 344/12 on 05/01/2003. 370/3 on 10/05/2003.

Likely dating to the early Christian period (5th–10th century), the cross-inscribed stone may have served as a memorial or waymarker. Such stones are often associated with ecclesiastical sites and may reflect Christian devotion or territorial markers in the local landscape.

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