What is recorded here

Graveslab in Athenry lies broken in the Dominican church nave, preserving a bevelled edge, faint cross traces and a lost fleur-de-lis terminal. It is not a complete monument but a fragment that once marked death, memory and rank inside a working house of prayer. The missing ends do not weaken it; they invite the viewer to complete what chisels, time and forgetting removed.

This broken graveslab (surviving L 1.09m; max. Wth 0.56m) is located in the nave of the Dominican church (GA084-001) close to the easternmost pier of the aisle arcade. Both ends and the top right side are broken. The slab is bevelled and traces of a raised cross are visible. An illustration by McKeon (2009, 50, Fig. 16: Slab F) indicates that the left terminal ended in a fleur-de-lis motif and a central roundel was also decorated with a cross. The stem extending below the roundel bears a bulbous protrusion and tendrils. The following images have been uploaded: GA084-001079-_01.jpg GA084-001079-_02.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 November 2018

Medieval Christian graveslab, 14th–15th century. Its location within a Dominican church indicates its association with religious or elite burial practices in late medieval Ireland.

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