What is recorded here

Formerly located on Inchcleraun Island, this cross-slab is one of four (see also LF021-048005-, LF021-048009- and LF021-048010-) from the island now in the care of the OPW (Athenry depot, county Galway; see GA084-151004-). Bigger (1900, 84-5) recorded that it was located 'on the low wall in front of the caretaker's cottage' on the island. It consists of a subrectangular fragment of a fossiliferous limestone slab (H 0.42m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.19m) bearing a very worn, two-line, incised Latin cross with a circular expansion in the centre. (English 1971, 148; Ciuchini 2010, Stone D, 92, 102, fig. 7) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 June 2013

Date likely to the early medieval period (7th–10th century AD), based on the style of the carved cross. Such cross-slabs were often associated with monastic or ecclesiastical sites and may have served as grave markers, memorials, or symbols of Christian identity.

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