What is recorded here

Death and rebirth are common in Ballylarkin Lower. A carved limestone block, once part of a grand tomb, now sits in a collapsed gateway beside a castle and 17th-century house. Its fluted surface hints at a pleated gown, freezing a forgotten person in stone. Across the road, another fragment crowns the church roof, proving that even ruins can be remade into new shapes.

Incorporated in a now collapsed gateway, into a field with a castle (KK013-017001-) and 17th-century house (KK013-017002-). The carved limestone block is decorated on one face with fluting, perhaps part of a pleated gown from an effigial tomb. A similarly carved stone, presumably from the same context, has been reused as one of the coping stones of the roof on the N side of the W gable of the church (KK013-018001-) on the opposite side of the road. See attached photographs: KK013-018006-_01 KK013-018006-_02 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 13 September 2022

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