What is recorded here

Half a concrete grave and half forgotten stone, the cross-slab still stands beside Teaghlach Éinne with two different crosses facing outward. One has a hollow place where a figure might have been, the other a blunt T at the top, as if certainty and mystery shared the same chamber. People may have walked past it for generations before anyone measured its ring or noticed the arms escaping it.

This cross-slab (H 0.7m; Wth 0.25m; T 0.2m) was found near the SE corner of Teaghlach Éinne (GA119-020001-), partly underlying a modern concrete grave surround (Manning 1985, 117). Both faces are decorated. One face bears a linear ringed Latin cross with a circular hollow at the top and a T-shaped terminal at the base. The arms project slightly beyond the ring. The other face bears a similar linear ringed cross with T-shaped terminals at the top and base. However, the arms do not extend beyond the ring (ibid. Fig. 25(a) Slab A). (See GA119-020013- for its original location; Higgins 1987, vol. 2, 408, no. 125) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 February 2023

This cross-slab is likely of early medieval Christian origin, based on its form and decorative style. It may have originally marked a burial or served as a memorial within a monastic or ecclesiastical context.

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