What is recorded here

Graveslab in Ballyman is one of two early graveslabs where this slab formed a lintel to the church window before moving to the National Museum of Ireland in 1940. It measures 1.32m long and 0.48m wide, carrying two groups of concentric circles with centre cup marks, a centre band and herringbone pattern. The carving suggests a place where memory was shaped before it was kept, perhaps marking a loss serious enough to warrant stone rather than silence.

One of two early graveslabs (see also DU028-002006-) this slab formed a lintel to the church window: it was moved to the National Museum of Ireland in 1940 (Reg. no. 1940:106; see DU018-146----). The slab (L 1.32m, Wth 0.48m) is carved with two groups of concentric circles with centre cup marks, a centre band and herringbone pattern. (Ó hÉailidhe 1973, 57, no. B14; Swords 2009, 84). DU028-002005-_01.jpg: Photograph of the graveslab (taken 1 February 2012), uploaded courtesy of Christiaan Corlett. Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 28 July 2018

Early Christian gravestone; 7th–9th century. Likely of local significance as a reused ecclesiastical stone, now in the National Museum of Ireland.

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