What is recorded here

Cross-slab (present location) in Rathquarter is a cross-slab (present location) in Rathquarter, County Sligo, Ireland. That is slab 1 of seven taken from Carrowntemple graveyard into Sligo County Council care. It is now in Sligo museum. The other six share that move and that setting.

One of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard (SL044-056002-) into the care of Sligo County Council (Sligo museum). For description see SL044-056004-. (Wallace and Timoney 1987, slab 1) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 June 2009

This cross-slab is likely of early medieval Christian origin, associated with a monastic or ecclesiastical site. It may have served as a funerary or commemorative monument, reflecting the spread of Christianity in the region.

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