Cross-slab in Monasterredan, County Sligo

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What is recorded here

In Monasterredan graveyard (SL046-014002-) and ecclesiastical enclosure (SL046-014003-). An upright stone slab (H 0.55m) shaped like an inverted triangle, tapering from a width of 0.85m at the top to 0.4m at the bottom, incised with a simple Greek cross (Wth 0.23m; H 0.215) with T-shaped terminals. The cross-slab was recorded as missing in 2005 (Egan et al. 2005). It was located in the SW quadrant of the graveyard in 2020 (pers. comm. C. Corlett). Attached image: SL046-014007-_01 Revised upload: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 18 December 2020

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL046-014007

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