What is recorded here

Graveslab in Agharra, County Longford, Ireland: a small inscribed cross about two and a half feet high, lying on the church floor in 1942, marked 1633, now not located. It may have stood for someone the parish remembered plainly enough to carve but not clearly enough to preserve. What is lost is not the stone alone, but the name, the hands that laid it down, and the reason Agharra kept it inside rather than buried again.

Associated with the church (LF04-007001-). A report in 1942 (ITA Survey) recorded a graveslab lying on the ground within the church. It was described it as a ‘small inscribed cross … about 21/2 feet [0.76m] high and nearly the same in width’. Apart from the date 1633, the inscription was not clear. Not located. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 4 June 2013

Early Christian gravestone, likely 8th to 10th century. Its inscribed cross and association with a church highlight the presence of monastic or ecclesiastical activity in the area during the early medieval period.

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