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Cross-slab in Kiltiernan

Cross-slab

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Kiltiernan is a walled graveyard on a south-facing slope in County Dublin, marked by a small cross-incised granite slab outside the church. The slab measures forty-five centimetres long, forty-six centimetres wide and twelve centimetres thick, yet it still points toward the building and the buried dead. A person may have stood there in rain or sunlight, reading the cross as a promise that the place remained remembered.
YA cross-incised granite slab lies outside the SE corner of the church (DU026-0001-) (L 0.45m, Wth 0.46m, T. 0.12m) (Pers. comm. Chris Corlett). (Wakeman 1891, 697-702; 1900, 188-190; Turner 1983, 46, Corlett & Mc Guinness 1994, 217-8, Swords, 2009, 99). The church stands within a walled graveyard, located on the summit of a S facing slope Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 14 April 2018.

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