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Cross-slab in Letter

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Discovered incorporated into the W gable of Cadamstown Church in the 19th-century when recent replastering of the W gable revealed an Early Christian cross-slab (OF037-013002-) that originally came from Letter graveyard (OF037-002002-). Cross referenced with OF037-013002.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF037-002004

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