What is recorded here

Cross-slab in Fuerty is a cross-slab in Fuerty, County Roscommon, Ireland. Fragments measuring 0.3m x 0.15m with a swastika motif were acquired by the National Museum of Ireland in 1984 from Fuerty graveyard.

Fragments of a cross-slab (dims 0.3m x 0.15m) with a swastika motif were acquired by the National Museum of Ireland in 1984 from Fuerty graveyard (RO039-063002-) (Siggins 1988, 55-6; Herity at al. 1997, 18, 036). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Date likely to the early Christian period, given the cross-slab form, with the swastika motif possibly representing a sun symbol or a Christian cross adaptation. Its original use may have been as a funerary or commemorative monument within a burial context.

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