What is recorded here

Graveslab fragments from Fuerty graveyard, bearing a swastika motif, now rest in the National Museum of Ireland after acquisition in 1984. The small cross-slab pieces measure thirty by fifteen centimetres and preserve a symbol often dismissed as foreign but likely local in origin. They arrived from an unknown townland in County Dublin, carrying no warning except the shape itself. What hand cut them, when, and for whom has not survived. The museum case holds only stone; the question remains untouched.

Fragments of a cross-slab (see RO039-063005-) (dims. 0.3m x 0.15m) with a swastika motif were acquired by the National Museum of Ireland in 1984 from Fuerty graveyard (RO039-063002-). (Siggins 1988, 55-6; Herity at al. 1997, 18, 036) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 20 May 2015

Christian cross-slab, medieval period, featuring a swastika motif; significant as an example of early Christian stone art in Ireland.

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