What is recorded here

Petrie pulled the second cross-slab from the south at Teampall Bhreacáin in 1822, revealing an incised potent cross and the dedication TOMAS AP[STAL]. That much is fixed. Whether Thomas the Apostle truly walked Eoghanacht or a local carver borrowed his name to flatter a forgotten grave is the part still breathing. Stone does not answer cheek, but it does repeat it back after centuries.

This is one of four cross-slabs (see also GA110-023021-, GA110-023023- and GA110-023024-) now associated with St Brecan’s Grave (GA110-023009-); it is the second cross-slab from the S. It was found by Petrie in 1822 in Teampall Bhreacáin (GA110-010001-) (Waddell 1973, 21, no. 12). It consists of a rectangular slab (H 0.82m; Wth 0.38m; T 0.12m) bearing an incised cross potent with ornamented rolls in each quarter. The cross rises from a roughly rectangular base. An inscription running across the shaft reads: TOMAS AP[STAL], a dedication to Thomas the Apostle (ibid.). (Westropp 1895, 253; Crawford 1913, 154 (i); Higgins 1987, 372, no. 92) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 March 2016

This cross-slab likely dates to the early medieval period, associated with Christian monastic activity in the region. It may have served as a funerary or commemorative monument linked to St Brecan’s Grave.

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