What is recorded here
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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