What is recorded here
This stone is a very worn Rathdown-type slab (L. 1.5m x Wth 0.57m) bearing only two cup-marks. It is secured to the E face of the buttresss on the S wall of Rathmichael church (DU026-050001-) (Ó hEailidhe 1957, 77, 79). The church stands on the E slopes of Carrickgollogan.
See attached drawing of graveslab taken from Healy 2009, 92.
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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. It is significant as a rare surviving example of early Christian monumental stonework associated with ecclesiastical sites in Leinster.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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