What is recorded here

One fragment of a granite grave slab from Tully graveyard in Laughanstown became the lintel above the aumbry in the church chancel. The surviving piece is small, barely half a metre wide and eight millimetres thick, with rounded angles and tapering edges. A dead person’s marker was broken, carried indoors and set above the place where bread and wine waited, turning private loss into a boundary for the sacred room.

It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). Only a portion of this slab survives. It was used as a lintel for the aumbry in the S wall of the chancel of the church (DU026-023001-). The slab has rounded angles and tapering edges and measures 0.28m long, 0.47m wide and 0.008m thick. (Swords 2009, 69, no. 80) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015

Early Christian gravestone, 7th–9th century; reused as a lintel in a medieval church. Its survival indicates the continuity of sacred space and reuse of early Christian monuments in later ecclesiastical contexts.

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