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Cross-slab in Athy

Cross-slab
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Formerly in St. Michael’s parish church (KD035-022-014-) but now housed in the Athy Heritage Centre and Museum in Emily Square. The upper half of a tapering slab (L 1.30m; Wth 0.52-0.60m; T 0.14m) is decorated with an incised fleur-de-lys cross, enclosing a lozenge shape in the cross-head. Probably 13th-century in date. (Bradley et al. 1986, vol. 1, 53).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KD035-022017

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