Graveslab in Straboe, County Carlow

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What is recorded here

National Monument No. 452. Tapering granite grave-slab (L 1.8m; Wth 0.5m tapering to 0.25m; T 0.23m) now affixed to wall of Templeboy Church (CW003-017001-). Double-ended cross in relief. Upper end, cross with large rounded expanded terminals (Wth c. 0.38m) and at the base of the shaft (0.07m) it terminates in small Latin cross (Wth 0.21m). (Kilfeather, no. 619; Corlett 2003, 86-110) Date of revision: 7 September 2009 Revised by: Jean Farrelly

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CW003-017002

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