What is recorded here
Cross-slab (present location) in Rathquarter is a cross-slab (present location) in Rathquarter, County Sligo, Ireland. It is slab 5 of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard into the care of Sligo County Council at Sligo museum.
One of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard (SL044-056002-) into the care of Sligo County Council (Sligo museum). For description see SL044-056011-. (Wallace and Timoney 1987, slab 5)
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 a liturgical function within the graveyard. Its carved cross may reflect both Insular and continental artistic influences, common in monastic sites of the period.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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