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Cross-inscribed stone in Glebe (rathvilly By.)

Cross-inscribed stone

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Half of a late medieval grave slab still stands in Glebe, its visible cross perhaps the foot of a larger design buried beneath the soil. The granite measures sixty-five centimetres high and forty-seven centimetres wide, with a Latin cross carved in relief on one face. What is hidden may be twice as large, waiting under grass and forgotten steps.
A granite slab (H 0.65m; Wth 0.47m; T 0.23m) with a Latin cross in relief on the W face. (Harbison 1991, 181 (No. 6)). Corlett (2003, 94-5) suggests that this is of late medieval date and that the visible cross is a terminal cross and the main cross is hidden beneath the ground surface. References: Corlett C. 2003 'The Hollywood Slabs - some late medieval grave slabs from West Wicklow and Neighbouring Counties' in JRSAI vol. 133. Harbison P. 1991 'Early Christian Antiquities at Clonmore, Co. Carlow' in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (vol. 91, C, Number 7), Dublin. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 19 August 2011

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