What is recorded here
Graveslab in Ballymore Eustace East stands immediately south of the west gable of medieval church ruins, its tapering granite body gripping the earth beside a forgotten graveyard. The incised Latin cross on its east face catches low light, marking a boundary between the living and the dead long before written names arrived. It is not a monument to pride but a quiet witness, holding the shape of grief and faith in stone.
In a graveyard (KD029-011004-) immediately S of the W gable of a medieval church ruins (KD029-011002-). An erect, earthfast, tapering granite slab (dims. H 1.03m; Wth 0.5-0.65m; T 0.25m) carries an incised Latin cross on its E face. (Corlett 2003, 87, 88 Slab 2)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 August 2013
Early Christian gravestone, likely 8th–11th century AD; significant as a rare surviving example of medieval Christian funerary art in the region.
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- What survives
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