What is recorded here

Graveslab in Portlecka is a recumbent graveslab in the nave of Ruan church, marked by a double-lined ringed cross whose lower shaft has broken away. It lies head to the west beside a similar slab, making the pair feel like two forgotten people set down across the same dark floor. The missing bottom of the cross suggests more than remains visible, as if the stone once reached further into the earth or was damaged before anyone recorded it.

A recumbent graveslab lying in the nave of Ruan church (CL025-070002-). A tapering slab (L 1.06m; Wth at top 0.5m; Wth at base 0.43m; D 0.05m) with a double-lined incised ringed cross, aligned E-W with the head to W. The bottom of the cross is broken away - the incised shaft looks to have extended further down. No evidence of an inscription. A graveslab with a similar cross-head (CL025-070008-) lies immediately adjacent to W. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 31 October 2018

Early Christian recumbent graveslab, 7th–9th century. Its ringed cross and orientation indicate a Christian burial associated with an early monastic or ecclesiastical site.

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