What is recorded here

One of five Early Christian cross-slabs stands in a Ballintine graveyard beside an old church site. The reddish conglomerate fragment rises barely thirty-eight centimetres above the soil, its rounded head carrying a Greek cross on the eastern face. It is not a monument built for distance or display. It is a marker buried to the waist, waiting for rain, foot traffic and the patience of anyone who stops to look.

One of five Early Christian cross-slabs (KD018-001003- to KD018-001007- ) located in a graveyard (KD018-001002-) which also contains a church site (KD018-001001-). A low, earthfast fragment of reddish/brown conglomerate stone (H 0.38m) comprises a rounded head (diam. 0.32m; T 0.10m) bearing a Greek cross on its E face with a short portion of the shaft (Wth 0.17m) protruding above ground surface. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Dated to the Early Christian period (6th–9th centuries AD), the cross-slab likely served a liturgical or commemorative function, possibly marking a grave or religious site. Such stones often carried Christian iconography and were associated with early monastic or ecclesiastical activity in the region.

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