What is recorded here

Kill Saint Anne North preserves a flat cross slab leaning in pasture beside an old burial ground. Its right arm ends in a small flourish while the left dissolves into a natural groove, suggesting a carver who followed the grain of the stone rather than forcing it into symmetry. The graveyard field still faces east, catching light where the dead were laid, and the cross stands at its edge like a marker half given up to grass and rain.

In pasture, on an E-facing slope in a field known as the graveyard field and immediately outside the SW corner of a burial ground (CO045-146001-). A rectangular stone slab (H 0.63m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.06-0.08m) with roughly cut-off corners leaning against a low stone field boundary. On the upper half of the stone is a simple Latin cross (H 0.18m; Wth 0.14m). The right arm of the cross has an expanded terminal while the left arm terminates at a natural curved groove or irregularity on the surface of the otherwise smooth stone. A socket (D c. 0.03m) on the top of the cross may be a later feature and its function is not certain. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Probably dates to the early Christian period, given the presence of a cross inscription. It may have functioned as a waymarker, memorial, or Christian symbol associated with the nearby burial ground.

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