What is recorded here

Donaghmore Upper holds a lost graveslab beside a medieval church, where curious ornamentation once marked a life now forgotten. The slab fragments vanished before modern eyes, leaving only pasture and silence behind the farm buildings. What the incised patterns recorded has departed, but the ground remains charged with the weight of that erased story.

On fairly level ground at the foot of a range of low hills, at the rear of modern farm buildings, in good pasture. Within a graveyard (KK008-115002-) associated with a medieval church (KK008-115001-) Moore (1874-9, vol. 1, 36-7) noted, 'fragments of a medieval monument with curious ornamentation incised on them'. These fragments possibly relate to a medieval graveslab. The fragments were not visible when the graveyard was visited in 1986. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 22 January 2018

A 10th- to 12th-century Early Christian gravestone; associated with a medieval ecclesiastical site and indicative of Christian burial practices in the region.

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