What is recorded here

Carrownaseer North holds a children’s burial ground where a tall limestone cross later lay flat across the last child’s grave in the late 1950s. Its Greek cross still opens at the edges, not as decoration but as a marker moved from standing worship to mortal mercy. The stone may have watched births, feasts and prayers before it covered small bones, carrying that whole life into one quiet act of loss.

Within a children’s burial ground (GA005-035007-) associated with the church (GA005-035002-). This rectangular limestone cross-slab (L 0.9m; Wth 0.35m; T 0.07m) was recorded by Higgins (1987, ii, 318, no. 44). It bears a two-line Greek cross, the arms of which are open at the sides of the slab. The stone had originally been upright but, according to local information, it was reused to cover the grave of the last child to be buried in the burial ground in the late 1950s. A tau cross (GA005-035006-) was also reused as a grave-marker. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 28 May 2018

Probably dates to the early Christian period (5th–10th century). Likely used as a grave marker or memorial within a burial ground, reflecting Christian funerary tradition.

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