What is recorded here

Tipperkevin Church once held three granite cross-slabs, including a tall tapered stone carrying ringed crosses at both ends. People may have laid them across graves or leaned them against walls, marking death with bright geometry before forgetting the names beneath. One slab still stands in the Commons, while the others vanished or waited for another hand to move them.

In 1985, Healy (SMR file) recorded three cross-slabs in Tipperkevin Church (KD024-020----): 'A' (KD024-020002-) a fine tapered slab of granite (L 1.83m; Wth 0.42-0.53m) with an incised Greek cross with expanded arms. 'B' (KD024-020003-) a large tapered slab of granite slab of granite (L 1.9m; Wth 0.6-0.77m) decorated with a single shaft with ringed cross at each end, in relief. 'C' (KD024-020004-) the lower portions of a granite slab (min. L. 1.04m; max. Wth. 0.42m ), with two parallel incised lines representing the shaft of a cross. Two of the slabs, (KD024-020002- and KD024-020004-) were subsequently published (Healy 2009, 101, 104-5). Only one cross slab (KD024-020004-) was located on a 1986 visit when the interior of the church appeared to have been recently dug out (SMR file). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 13 June 2012

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