What is recorded here

An early monastic graveyard in Lullymore East still holds one of three surviving cross-inscribed stones, preserving a worship area now reduced to fragments scattered through walls and museums. The small sandstone slab bears a broad cross flanked by two smaller incised crosses, marking it as Kelly's Cross 12 rather than an ordinary grave marker. Most of the graveyard's crosses were removed for a 1798 memorial, leaving this stone behind like a forgotten sentence from a longer prayer.

One of three cross-inscribed stones (see also KD012-006009- and KD012-006010-) built into the wall of a graveyard (KD012-006005-) which forms part of an early monastic site (KD012-006----). A small sandstone slab (dims. L 0.31m; Wth 0.21m) bears a broad cross together with two small incised crosses flanking the shaft of the main cross. This is M. Kelly's 'Cross 12'. (Kelly 2006, 180) Seven other cross-inscribed stones (KD012-010----, KD012-010001- to KD012-010005- and KD012-010008-) and two cross-slabs (KD012-010006- and KD012-010007- ) were removed from this graveyard and built into a 1798 memorial, while an eleventh cross-inscribed stone (KD012-020----) lies in the Bog of Allen Nature Centre Museum. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Cross-inscribed stone in Lullymore East likely dates to the early Christian period (5th–9th century AD) and was probably used as a Christian memorial or waymarker. The presence of cross symbols suggests a religious function, possibly associated with the nearby early monastic site.

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