What is recorded here

Donaghmore holds a sandstone upright where a faint raised band still traces part of a cross ring. The stone stands little over a metre tall within the graveyard, wearing its age like a thumb mark across forgotten skin. It is the kind of place where people may have knelt before learning the name of the dead, leaving faith behind in rock instead of memory.

Within the graveyard (ME025-015003-) at Donaghmore. A sandstone upright (dims 0.45m x 0.1-0.18m; H 1.1m) has a rebate as a secondary feature down one side, but the shaft and part of the ring of a cross represented by a slightly raised band (Wth c. 5cm) is visible on the same face. See attached image. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 August, 2014

This cross-slab likely dates to the Early Christian period (5th–10th century AD) and may have served as a Christian memorial or waymark within a burial landscape. The presence of a cross suggests a religious or spiritual function, possibly associated with local Christian tradition or pilgrimage.

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