What is recorded here

No surface remains visible at the monastery of Tihilly, but Crawford measured an eleven-inch circle in 1913, proving the stone once held a four-rayed star made of intersecting arcs. That vanished geometry belongs to Loughaun now, buried beneath grass and forgetting. The cross did not break; it dissolved into the earth, waiting for someone stubborn enough to dig through centuries of silence.

One of three cross-slabs (OF008-045004/007-) that were located at the early Christian monastery of Tihilly. Described by Crawford in 1913 as 'a slab bearing a design consisting of a cross or four-rayed star formed of intersecting arcs of circles and surrounded by two concentric circles the outer being 11 in. in diameter' (Crawford 1913, 263). No surface remains visible of this cross-slab at the site of the monastery of Tihilly. Slab (c) in Crawfords catalogue of cross-slabs from Tihilly. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Probably dating to the early Christian period (7th–9th century AD), the cross-slab likely served a liturgical or commemorative function within the monastery, reflecting Christian symbolism and artistic traditions of the time.

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