What is recorded here

Athenry church still holds a tilted graveslab beside a blocked doorway, its cross carved with a plough sock and coulter instead of religious symbols. The dead person may have been a farmer, remembered through the tools that shaped their life rather than prayers or titles. Stone and soil both marked them, suggesting ordinary work mattered as much as ritual in that place.

This obliquely shouldered graveslab (L 1.52m; Wth across the top 0.75m; Wth across base 0.62m; T 0.1m) is to the W of the blocked doorway in the S wall of the nave of the church (GA084-001014-). Described by Macalister (1913, 217, XXIII, Pl. VIII, No. 9) as a ‘recumbent slab with a plain cross on a calvary’. There is a plough sock on the sinister side of the stem of the cross and a coulter on its dexter side. There is no inscription. (Bradley and Dunne 1992, 40-41) The following image has been uploaded: GA084-001064-_01.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 November 2018

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