What is recorded here

Seven centuries of death and prayer crowd the south transept of St. Brigid’s Cathedral, where cross slabs and effigies from the 10th to 17th centuries wait beneath living worship. One small limestone corner carries an eight-armed fleur-de-lys cross and fragments of a Roman name, preserving a forgotten person inside a much larger church. The stones do not explain themselves; they force the living to remember that Kildare has always belonged to the dead as well as the deity.

A large collection of cross slabs, grave slabs, decorated stones and three effigies (See KD022-029023- and KD022-029027- to KD022-029057-), dating from the 10th to the 17th centuries have been placed in St. Brigid’s Cathedral (KD022-029005-). KD022-029042-: In the S transept. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 3, 234), the upper corner of a limestone slab (H 0.51m; Wth 0.35m; T0.18m) is decorated in false relief with an eight-armed fleur-de-lys cross and has a marginal inscription in Roman lettering: ‘… TUR DEUS AM/ EN DA. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 3 February 2012

A cross-slab associated with St. Brigid’s Cathedral, likely dating to the 10th to 17th centuries, may have had a funerary or liturgical function, reflecting Christian devotion and medieval artistic traditions.

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