What is recorded here

Cross-slab in High Island is a broken disc-headed stone bearing a Latin cross and four deep hollows at its centre. It lay hidden in rubble south of the church enclosure before entering public care. The missing quadrant and worn surface suggest a long life of burial, movement and forgetting. What remains is small enough to lift but heavy enough to mark the place where devotion was set into rock.

Recorded by Fisher (2014, 213, no. 29, Fig. 7.5), this much-broken disc-headed cross-slab (H 0.55m; Wth 0.29m) of garnet mica-schist was found in rubble to the S of the church enclosure (GA021-026021-) on High Island. Most of the upper left quadrant is missing. One face is decorated. It bears an outline or low relief Latin cross. Four deep hollows are evident at the intersection of the cross arms. The shaft is undecorated. This cross-slab is now in the care of the OPW (Athenry depot, Co. Galway, see GA084-151020-). (White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 156, no. 29) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 November 2015

Date likely to the early medieval period, given its form as a cross-slab. Such stones were often used for Christian burials or as markers in sacred landscapes, though local folklore may have attached additional symbolic or protective meanings to the stone.

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