What is recorded here

One chamber holds three living rooms, each belonging to a different century, and the woman walks through all of them before leaving. The first room is young and angry, the second is broken and honest, the third is clear enough to see without fear. She does not force them into one story. She waits until they stop resisting each other, then she gives back what they showed her.

In a church (CO006-006006-), within an early ecclesiastical enclosure (CO006-006011-). Three fragments of a single cross-slab, one of a series of cross-slabs and slab fragments, mostly of Early Christian date. There are other cross-slabs in the surrounding graveyard (CO006-006008-, CO006-006009-). The description given below is largely derived from the publications by Henderson and Okasha (1992) and Leask (1938, fig. 1, p. 102, and p. 106). The fragments in Tullylease are a concrete cast made from the original, now housed in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. They are arranged on a slab meant to represent the size of the original one (L 0.51m; Wth 0.44m; T 0.05), mounted on the E wall of the church, the N-most of three groups of fragments. It is inscribed with a framed cross with U-shaped expansions, a circular central panel, and ornamented with key-pattern (Henderson and Okasha 1992, no. 6, 2). It was dated by Leask (1938, 106) to the 9th century, by Lionard (1961, 155) to c. 700 AD; Henderson and Okasha (1992, 34) consider it 'somewhat later' than the middle of the 8th century. Compiled by Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 26 November 2025

Dated to the Early Christian period, the cross-slab likely served a liturgical or commemorative function within the ecclesiastical site. Its carved crosses may reflect early Christian symbolism or the influence of monastic activity in the region.

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