What is recorded here
In Cinn Aird Thoir, a locally sourced slab of old red sandstone still stands beside Grave No. 406, carrying an inscribed cross that has outlasted every name written beneath it. The red stone may have come from nearby hills, shaped by hands that no longer remember the dead it marks. It is not a grand monument, but a quiet witness: a cross cut into earth-toned rock, holding one forgotten life in place while the graveyard around it keeps changing.
In 2011 a graveyard survey carried out by Ann Frykler and Robert Hanbidge of Headland Archaeology Ltd. recorded the following details about a cross-inscribed stone (Miscellaneous No. 21): ‘Locally sourced slab of old red sandstone with inscribed cross, also forming gravemarker to Grave No. 406’ (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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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