What is recorded here

A small, triangular slab from High Island, it may have marked a burial or a prayer corner before men moved it into the clochan at Raheen. Its red-veined schist still carries a Latin cross, and that much is plain. What is lovely is the chance that it was carried across water, handled by more than one faith, and set down again as a thing worth keeping.

Originally from High Island (see GA021-026056-). Recorded by Fisher (2014, 214, no. 32, Fig. 7.6), this is one of two cross-slabs (see also GA084-151023-) that were found from the paved floor of ‘Cell A’, the clochan (GA021-026012-) to the N of the church (GA021-026014-). The cross-slab (H 0.56m; Wth 0.31m; T 0.1m) of garnet mica-schist is roughly triangular in shape. One face is decorated above the butt with an expansional Latin cross framed by a band with an ovoid centre and D-shaped terminals. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 November 2015

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