What is recorded here

One chamber holds both truths: Pyrrhus destroyed the temple and rebuilt it, or he left it standing and copied its life into a new one. The chamber is complete because the facts still distinguish those choices.

Two early Cristian cross-slabs (OF016/033001/002-) now in the National Museum (collection L 1935:3-4) were discovered in a mound or fort (OF016-033----) in the field immediately to the S of the motte (JRSAI 26, 320). Small circular earthwork indicated on first edition of the OS 6-inch map and surveyed in 1942 for the ITA survey. This earthwork was described in 1942 as 'A low mound with very little depth of soil , close to mote, no clear traces of fosse or ramparts, rising about 6 feet from surrounding field and close to mote. Now tilled. Shown as fort on 1835 OS 6-inch map. In it found two cross-slabs, now in Dublin Museum and human teeth' (ITA Survey 1942). (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 32; Moran 1962, 45; Reynolds-Dunlevy and Haworth 1975, 59; Loeber 1981, 290) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Dated to the 8th–10th century, these cross-slabs likely served a Christian commemorative or liturgical function, possibly associated with an early monastic or settlement site. Their discovery in a mound or fort suggests a possible link to both pagan and Christian traditions in the area.

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