What is recorded here

Graveslab in Portlecka lies broken beneath the east window of Ruan Church, its ringed cross still visible in gravel. The tapering stone measures nearly two metres and belongs to a cluster of similar slabs scattered through the church. Without writing or an unbroken edge, it records death through shape alone: a double-lined cross, a stepped base, and a sudden angular break across the middle.

Situated beneath the E window of Ruan Church (CL025-070002-), lying recumbent in gravel. A tapering graveslab (L 1.91m; Wth at top 0.61m; Wth at base 0.52m; D 0.07m) with a double-lined incised ringed cross ending in a stepped base. The slab is broken across the middle at an angle. No evidence of an inscription. Several other graveslabs with similar incised crosses are lying in the church and some others have raised Latin crosses. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 31 October 2018

Early Christian gravestone, 7th–9th century; significant as an example of insular cross-carved stonework associated with early Irish monastic sites.

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