What is recorded here
An Gorta Dubha holds six small cross slabs, including stone 532, which lies on its side with a rough Latin cross on one face and a smaller equal-armed cross on the other. They are not grand monuments, but repeated marks of love, fear, memory or prayer. That much is visible. The lives behind them have faded, yet the stones still point downward into the earth, holding what the people there refused to lose.
In 2010 a graveyard survey carried out by Laurence Dunne recorded the following details about a cross-inscribed stone no. 532: 'There were six small cross slabs recorded in Dunurlin in the course of this survey. One of the cross-slabs is modern (546), located beside the bench/patio area has a Chi-Rho inscribed on it. The third cross-slab of this group, (532), lies immediately W of 531 [KE042-042004-]. This sandstone lies on its side and partially displays a rough Latin cross (?) on one face and a small equal armed cross on the other face' (Dunne 2010, 15).
See attached plan and photograph courtesy of Laurence Dunne
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Laurence Dunne
Date of upload: 7 July 2022
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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