Graveslab in Newberry, County Cork

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What is recorded here

Built into W wall of Kilshannig graveyard (CO032-107002-) is a 16th-century graveslab said to have come from Mourne Abbey (see 9550) but has been here since at least 1860 (Brady ibid., 290); design consists of seven-armed ringed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals; shaft, banded at base of cross-head, flanked by two plain square raised panels, probably intended for heraldic shields; below this, leafy frond springs from sinister side of cross shaft; raised border occurs along three surviving edges of slab (see Maher 1994).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO032-107004

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