What is recorded here

Graveslab in Ennisnag lies within the graveyard of the medieval church, carrying an incised cross and grooves cut to hold a small brass tablet. The tablet is gone, perhaps taken by curiosity or greed, leaving a hollow promise on the stone. Whoever laid that marker believed the dead deserved recognition, even if time has erased the name and date.

Within the graveyard (KK027-020002-) of the medieval church of Ennisnag (KK027-020001-), Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 374-5) noted, ‘a fragment of another tomb with an incised cross; on the shaft, about a foot below the cross-bar, there are grooves for the fastening of a small brass tablet’. The form and date of this graveslab is unknown. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 27 March 2023

A 9th- to 10th-century early Christian gravestone with an incised cross, associated with the medieval church of Ennisnag; it reflects the continuation of Christian burial traditions in the area.

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