What is recorded here

One green-flag cross-slab stood four feet high in Killeen Cormac, bearing a plain cross and rude workmanship before disappearing from Colbinstown. Fitzgerald measured its broad shoulders and thin depth at the century's turn, capturing a stark marker now lost to time. The slab may have guarded buried bodies or marked a boundary, yet even its exact identity remains uncertain among two possible records. What is certain is that human hands shaped stone there, and the earth has since taken back the proof.

One of two possible cross slabs (KD032-044010- and KD032-044015-) recorded by Fitzgerald (1899-1902(f), 161 (C)) in ‘Killeen Cormac’ burial ground (KD032-044----), and described as a ‘green-flag … standing 4ft [c. 1.22m] above the ground, 2ft [c. 0.61m] in breadth and about 5 in. [c. 0.13m] in thickness [with] on it a plain cross 23 in. [c. 0.59m] long and 18 in. [c. 0.46m] across the arms. … the workmanship very rude’ (op. cit 159-60). The slab was not located. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 21 November 2013

Cross-slab in Colbinstown likely dates to the early Christian period (5th–10th centuries AD) and may have served a funerary or commemorative function, as suggested by its location in a burial ground. The term "green-flag" may indicate a partially buried or leaning slab, though its specific symbolic meaning remains unclear.

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