What is recorded here
A granite slab (H 0.86m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.11m) with a ringed cross in relief on W face. (Harbison 1991, 186 (No. 15))
Reference:
Harbison P. 1991 'Early Christian Antiquities at Clonmore, Co. Carlow' in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (vol. 91, C, Number 7), Dublin.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 19 August 2011
This cross-slab, dating likely to the early Christian period (7th–10th century), features a ringed (Celtic) cross and may have functioned as a memorial or waymark. Such stones often carried Christian symbolism and were associated with monastic or ecclesiastical sites.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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