What is recorded here

Graveslab in Baile Chláir lies broken along the south wall of the friary nave, a seventeenth-century cross-slab whose name and prayer have worn away. It is not a display trophy but a buried edge of the church, small enough to step past and large enough to remind that death still lives inside the room where people worshipped.

Located on the ground along the south wall of the nave of the friary (GA070-035001-). Described by Bradley and Dunne (1992, 61) as a broken 17th-century ‘cross-slab’ (L 0.71m; Wth 0.61m; T 0.11m) decorated with a cross in relief and bearing the following inscription: PRAY FOR …/ VLES OF …./ ALY AND …/ …A.. On inspection in June 2018 a fragment of a slab close to the S wall of the nave roughly matched the dimensions of the slab recorded by Bradley and Dunne (ibid.), however, no trace of an inscription was evident on it. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2018

17th-century Christian cross-slab; associated with early modern ecclesiastical practice. Significance lies in its decorative cross and potential connection to local friary history.

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