What is recorded here

Breakage split the slab, but the west face still holds a Latin cross whose right arm spreads wider than the left. It stands in Calluragh burial ground on the lower western slopes of Brandon mountain, where a shallow field is held by modern walls and a rough eastern scarp. The base ends in two conjoined ovals, shaping the cross into something more like a knot than a marker. People may have set it beside deaths they loved, leaving its meaning buried beneath stone, rain and time.

National Monument No. 10032. Calluragh burial ground (KE034-023001-) /An Cheallúnach: Situated on the lower W slopes of Brandon mountain, this burial ground lies at the N side of a sub-rectangular field, 49m E-W x 35m N-S, which is enclosed on the N, W and S sides by modern field walls and on its E side by a low scarp or step, revetted with a rough facing of large boulders; Cross-slab (KE034-023002-) This roughly rectangular slab measures .72m in height, .26m in width and .07m in thickness but is now broken in two. Its present W face is decorated with a Latin cross with expanded terminals to head and arms; the wider expansion of the right arm, in comparison to that of the left arm, may partly be due to erosion. The base of the cross ends with a more elaborate motif whose outline is not entirely clear. However, it appears to take the form of a pair of conjoined ovals. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 817. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 7 August 2013

Probably dating to the early Christian period (5th–10th century AD), this cross-slab may have marked a burial or served as a memorial within the Calluragh burial ground. Such stones often carried Christian symbols and were associated with local monastic or ecclesiastical activity.

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