What is recorded here

Under the cloister wall at Innisfallen, a dark-grey slab lay buried beside the Augustinian Abbey, its incised cross hidden beneath stone and time. The arms ended in horseshoe shapes around a central circle, matching older slabs at Clonmacnoise and Cong, while erosion had already blurred the base and sides. It later surfaced flat on the garth wall, exposed to rain and memory before disappearing again. What is lost there does not stop moving; it waits beneath soil, mortar and forgetfulness for someone to walk past and imagine the hand that cut it.

Originally underneath the garth wall in the cloister of the Augustinian Abbey (KE066-072001-) (OPW records). Subsequently placed lying flat on top of the N wall of the cloister garth. A dark-grey slate-like slab (L 1.33m; Wth 0.63m; T 0.15m) with an incised cross. The cross (L 0.9m; Wth c. 0.55m) is damaged and eroded at the base and sides and comprises an inner vertical incised line with a circle at the centre. The arms extend from a central circle to terminate in an expanded horseshoe shape. An outer incised line mirrors the inner line on either side. Similar cross-slabs at Clonmacnoise and Cong date to the 10th century. This slab is now missing. (Weaver 1995) M. Weaver 1995 'An architectural survey of Inisfallen Island, Lough Leane, Co. Kerry.' MA Thesis, Dept. of Archaeology, UCC. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

Probably dating to the early medieval period, this cross-slab likely served a Christian symbolic or commemorative function, associated with the religious activity of the Augustinian Abbey. Its repositioning suggests later adaptive reuse within the monastic complex.

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