What is recorded here

Graveslab in Coolaghmore is a chamfered stone set into the grass beside an old church, marking a forgotten person with no more than a thin groove around its edge. It has waited through rain and foottraffic without naming itself, keeping the identity of the dead person below it intact. The absence of carving is not emptiness; it is a boundary drawn in stone, telling the living that some stories belong to the ground and must be left alone.

On a NE-facing slope, in rough grazing with outcropping bedrock. Located c. 7m S of a multiperiod church (KK030-004001-), within an irregularly shaped graveyard (KK030-004003-). This graveslab (visible H 0.64m; Wth 0.6m) is embedded in the ground. It has a chamfered edge and the upper surface appears to be undecorated, apart from a border, defined by a groove, around the top surface, c. 0.02m from the edge. There is another roughly rectangular medieval graveslab (KK030-004010-) in the graveyard and Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 336) mentions 'two uninscribed coffin-shaped slabs [KK030-004010- and KK030-004011-], with raised crosses' of 13th/14th century date in the graveyard, which appear to be in addition to the two graveslabs (KK030-004004- and KK030-004009-) identified during fieldwork. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 18 July 2023

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