What is recorded here
Graveslab in Killeenavarra marks a dead person as a driver, not a distant abstract soul. The chamber still holds that much: a life lived, a death accepted, a name half-lost, and a request for prayer written beneath a plough sock. Everything else is inference.
This late-medieval graveslab lies to the E of the internal N-S dividing wall in the church (GA113-129----). It bears the occupational symbol of a plough sock with the following inscription beneath it: PRAY FOR THE SOULE OF D(?)R 1687.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 28 February 2020
Late-medieval Christian graveslab, 14th–16th century. It is significant for its occupational symbol (a plough sock) and inscription, reflecting agrarian social identity and devotional practices in medieval Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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