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Graveslab in Callan South

Graveslab

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Graveslab in Callan South lies at the W end of the N aisle of St Mary’s parish church, a tapering limestone slab preserving the ghost of an elaborate floriated cross-head. It is not a showpiece, but a buried edge of human memory: someone lived, died, was remembered, and stone carried that reminder into centuries of rain, prayer and forgetfulness.
Lying at the W end of the N aisle of the nave of St Mary’s parish church (KK026-010012-). Limestone tapering slab (L 1.87m; Wth at top 0.55m; Wth at base 0.28m; T 0.11m) with much worn decoration suggesting an elaborate floriated cross-head. It has straight sides which are roughly stab dressed. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 September 2018
Early Christian gravestone, likely 7th to 9th century. Its worn decoration indicates artistic and funerary traditions of the early medieval period in Ireland.

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