What is recorded here

Graveslab in Unknown marks the lost birthplace of a stone now resting on Castlemore motte. Orpen recorded that people moved it from a nearby graveyard during the 18th century, stripping it from the exact soil where it first watched over the dead. It may have stood beside a road, a hall or a forgotten chapel, but that address has vanished. The cross still carries the shape of the place even when the place no longer answers.

This record refers to the original location of the graveslab which is now located on Castlemore motte (CW008-033001-). The exact original location is unknown. According to Orpen (1906, 379) this was moved from a nearby graveyard (CW008-033003-) in the 18th century. Corlett (2003, 94) describes it as a slab (L 1.95m; T 0.3m; Wth 0.58m tapering to 0.35m) in recumbent position decorated with a cross (Wth 0.43m), shaft (Wth 0.1m) and terminating in a cross (Wth 0.32m), all in low relief. There is also a transom (Wth 0.43m) transecting midway along the shaft. It has been ascribed a 13th/early 14th-century date. (See CW008-033007- for present location record) Reference: Corlett, C. 2003 The Hollywood Slabs - some late medieval graveslabs from west Wicklow and neighbouring Counties. In JRSAI 133, 94-5. Orpen, G.H. 1906 The castle of Raymond le Gros at Fodredunolan. In JRSAI 36, 368-82. Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 11 January 2012

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