What is recorded here

One line, four equal arms, and tiny T-bars at the ends: a cross carved on a stone at Mainistir on Aran Mór, drawn by Wakeman in 1891 and tied to the local church. The stone itself has vanished from sight, perhaps buried, broken, or taken when the island changed hands and habits. What remains is a thin drawn ghost, clear enough to picture and elusive enough to tempt a walker into searching grass, rubble, or forgotten wall ends.

Wakeman (1891, 352, Fig. 9, Plate I) recorded a cross ‘on a stone at Mainistir, on Aran Mór’, noting that it was associated with the church (GA111-002001-). The cross was a single-line roughly equal–armed cross with T-shaped terminals. The outline of the stone was not included and the dimensions of the cross are not known. It has not been located. (Higgins 1987, vol. II, 293, no. 24) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 April 2016

This cross-slab is likely from the early medieval period, associated with a monastic or ecclesiastical site on Aran Mór. It may have served as a Christian monument or marker, reflecting the spread of Christianity in the region during the 7th to 10th centuries.

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