What is recorded here

Second from the north beside St Brecan’s Grave in Eoghanacht, the cross-slab stands 0.89m tall with a grooved Latin cross, circular centre and semicircular terminals. VII ROMANI runs across its four cantons, a Roman-sounding name preserved on Galway stone. Whatever court or household it marked has vanished, but the chisel work and inscription still point to a person important enough to remember.

This is one of four cross-slabs (see also GA110-023021-, GA110-023022- and GA110-023024-) now associated with St Brecan’s Grave (GA110-023009-); it is the second slab from the N. It is a subrectangular slab (H 0.89m; Wth 0.33m; T 0.09m) bearing a broadly grooved Latin cross with a circular centre and semicircular terminals. An inscription running across the four cantons of the cross reads: VII ROMANI (Waddell 1973, 21, no. 13). (Westropp 1895, 251-2; Crawford 1913, 153 (d); Macalister 1913, 344; Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 307, no. 34) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 March 2016

This cross-slab likely dates to the early medieval period, associated with Christian worship or commemoration, possibly linked to St Brecan. Such slabs often served as grave markers or waymarkers in monastic or pilgrimage landscapes.

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