What is recorded here

Clear water still moves around Saints Island, but the small cross-slab has stood inside the Early Christian settlement since people first shaped it. Its shallow Latin cross and mossy edge belong to a time when prayer, memory and daily life occupied the same island. The larger slab beside it suggests that this was not a lonely marker but a shared place of remembrance.

In Early Christian settlement (MA120-008----) on island in Lough Mask. Smaller of two cross-slabs lying side by side. Irregular shaped, moss-covered stone (L 0.78m; Wth 0.44m; T 0.08m) to right of (MA120-008002-). Incised Latin cross (H 0.2m; Wth 0.12m) with flat ending (Wth 0.08m) The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 598. Date of upload: 24 February 2014

Probably dates to the Early Christian period (6th–10th centuries AD), associated with monastic or ecclesiastical activity on Saints Island. The cross-slab may have marked a burial site, served as a liturgical object, or commemorated a local saint or notable figure.

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