What is recorded here

Graveslab in Abington is a missing cross slab last seen beside the Barry wall monument in Abbey Owney graveyard. Seymour described a raised four-point cross whose arms were bound inside an intertwined circle, but that vivid marker has slipped from the graveyard’s reach. It may still lie buried under grass, displaced by carts or forgotten beneath newer stone. The absence does not erase the shape; it invites people to imagine what the cross guarded and whose name it stopped carrying.

The precise location of a cross-inscribed graveslab in Abbey Owney graveyard (LI014-014006-) cannot be identified. In 1907 Seymour recorded that the graveslab was located close to the Barry wall monument (LI014-014018-) in Abbey Owney graveyard. He recorded the following details about the graveslab, 'Beyond this are a few pieces of cut stone, and a slab on which is carved a raised four-point cross, the arms bound in a circle which is intertwined with them' (Seymour 1907, 363). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien and Matt Kelleher Date of upload: 3 July 2017

Christian graveslab, medieval period; significant as an example of early Christian funerary art associated with a historic graveyard and adjacent monument.

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