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Graveslab in Drumlane (lower Loughtee By.)

Graveslab

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Graveslab in Drumlane stands two metres tall with a floriated cross but no name, carrying the Farrelly family and forgotten erenachs into legend. It moved from outside the north wall to inside the church, suggesting people wanted the cross near prayer rather than buried under grass. The slab still marks a life, a death and a local line of inheritance, even when the exact name has slipped away.
A trapezoidal graveslab (H c. 2m) with an elaborate floriated cross but no inscription is now inside the N wall of the church, although it was originally on the ground outside the N wall. It is locally attributed to the Farrelly family, erenachs of Drumlane. It is the only medieval memorial within a rectangular graveyard (CV014-028009-). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 July, 2018
Early Christian gravestone, likely 8th–10th century AD; significant as an example of high-status Christian funerary art in a regional context.

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