What is recorded here

Cross-slab in Toomour is a cross-slab in Toomour, County Sligo, Ireland. The rectangular slab, 0.47 metres long, 0.32 metres wide and 0.05 metre thick, lies on top of the leacht cuimhne in the southwest quadrant of Toomour graveyard. It is incised with a double rectangular frame, with a third line on one side, within which a pattern of crossed lines appears as a combined cross and saltire.

In the SW quadrant of Toomour graveyard (SL040-140004-). One of three cross-inscribed slabs (SL040-140005-; SL040-140010-) associated with the leacht cuimhne (SL040-140003-). A rectangular slab (0.47m x 0.32m; T 0.05m), on top of the leacht cuimhne, is incised with a double rectangular frame (there is a third line on one side) within which is a pattern of crossed lines described by Crawford (1913b, 165) as a 'combined cross and saltire'. O'Rorke ([1889] vol. 2, 213) recorded that this slab is known locally as the 'Altar-table' and some human bones were found under it following an exploration of the leacht cuimhne, instigated by Terence O'Rorke prior to 1889 (ibid., 214). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

Likely dating to the early Christian period, the cross-slab in Toomour may have served as a memorial or waymark, reflecting Christian symbolism in a landscape associated with local commemorative traditions.

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