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Graveslab in Ballymore Eustace East (ballymore Eustace Ed)

Graveslab

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In a graveyard (KD029-011004-), N of a medieval church ruins (KD029-011002-). A low, erect, earthfast granite slab (dims. H 0.44m; Wth 0.46m; T 0.16m) carries an incised Latin cross on its E face, below the arms of which are two, small, incised circles. (Corlett 2003, 87, 88-9, 106 Slab 5) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 30 August 2013
Early Christian gravestone, likely 7th–10th century AD; significant as a rare surviving example of a carved cross slab associated with a medieval ecclesiastical site.

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