What is recorded here
This graveslab is a very worn Rathdown-type slab (L 1.13m x Wth 0.52m) with slight traces of one cup-mark. It is secured to the wall of Rathmichael church (DU026-050002-) (Ó hÉailidhe 1957, 78, 79). The church lies on the E slopes of Carrickgollogan.
See attached drawing of graveslab taken from Healy 2009, 91.
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Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 17 May 2023
Rathdown-type graveslab, early Christian period; significant as a rare surviving example of early medieval funerary art in the region.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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