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Graveslab in Innisfallen

Graveslab

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On Innisfallen Island in Lough Leane, a plain chamfered grave slab stands in the nave of the Augustinian Abbey church. It tapers from top to bottom, measures roughly 1.6 to 2m long and 0.5 to 0.6m wide, and carries no inscription or decoration. Three similar slabs share the chancel or lie near the Abbot's church, suggesting a cluster of buried lives rather than one named hero. The absence of markers does not diminish them; it returns them to the rhythm of the island, where death and memory blend under open sky.
On Innisfallen Island in Lough Leane. A plain grave slab in the nave of the church of the Augustinian Abbey (KE066-072001-). It is chamfered and tapers from top to bottom ( L 1.6-2m; Wth at top c. 0.6m; Wth at base c. 0.5m). There is no evidence of any inscription or decoration. Two similar grave slabs (KE066-072004-, KE066-072013-) are in the chancel of the church and a fourth (KE066-072015-) lies immediately S of the adjacent Abbot's church (KE066-072008-). (Weaver 1995) Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 30 May 2011

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