What is recorded here

Kilgobnet church once held two cross-carved slabs leaning against its east wall, according to an old man who told the story to a visitor in the summer of 1938. They may have marked burial, prayer or ownership inside that small Kerry church, yet both stones have vanished from the place where they stood. What remains is a gap shaped like a cross, waiting for someone to remember where the stone went.

One of two stones (see KE065-042004-) with crosses carved on them which were recorded by Harris (1939, 178) from information given to her by an old man whom she met at Kilgobnet in July 1938. He told her that the two stones had leant against the E wall of Kilgobnet church (KE065-042001-) (ibid.). The present whereabouts of both stones is not known. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

Likely dating to the early medieval period, the cross-slab may have served a Christian ritual or commemorative function. Local tradition or folklore associated with the stones is not specifically recorded.

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