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Graveslab in Donaghmore Upper

Graveslab

What is recorded here

On fairly level ground at the foot of a range of low hills, at the rear of modern farm buildings, in good pasture. Within a graveyard (KK008-115002-) associated with a medieval church (KK008-115001-) Moore (1874-9, vol. 1, 36-7) noted, 'fragments of a medieval monument with curious ornamentation incised on them'. These fragments possibly relate to a medieval graveslab. The fragments were not visible when the graveyard was visited in 1986. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 January 2018
A 10th- to 12th-century Early Christian gravestone; associated with a medieval ecclesiastical site and indicative of Christian burial practices in the region.

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