What is recorded here

Graveslab in Threecastles marks two ancient crosses still standing in the local graveyard. Carrigan and Buggy both recorded the unusual stone work, preserving a glimpse of the region’s deeper burial customs. The slabs remain quiet witnesses to lives long forgotten, inviting wonder about the people who shaped and placed them.

In the graveyard at Threecastles (KK014-025007-). Describing the graveslabs, Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 268) noted, 'two uninscribed ones, with crosses of ancient pattern'. These are possibly the same slabs (KK014-025010- and KK014-025011-) noted by Buggy (1969, 15) as, 'Two pieces of stone with inscribed crosses of ancient pattern are to be seen'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 May 2010

Early Christian gravemarkers, likely 7th to 10th century AD. Their significance lies in the presence of ancient cross designs, indicating early monastic or Christian burial practices in the Threecastles area.

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