What is recorded here

Cross-slab (present location) in Rathquarter is a cross-slab (present location) in Rathquarter, County Sligo, Ireland. It is one of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard into the care of Sligo County Council for Sligo museum. Wallace and Timoney identified it as slab 2 in their 1987 account.

One of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard (SL044-056002-) into the care of Sligo County Council (Sligo museum). For description see SL044-056008-. (Wallace and Timoney 1987, slab 2) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 June 2009

Dateable to the early medieval period, likely 8th to 10th century AD, the cross-slab would have originally marked a Christian burial or served as a memorial within a monastic or parish context. Such slabs often carried religious symbols or inscriptions, reflecting the spread of Christianity in early Ireland.

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