What is recorded here

Half-buried in a children’s graveyard beside Teampall Chiaráin, a small limestone slab still wears a sharp-edged cross. Its lower end has vanished under soil, but the surviving line work suggests a point or heart shape hidden below. The cross stands out less as religion than as a marker someone set where young bodies were laid.

Within a children’s burial ground (GA111-002005-) to the NE of Teampall Chiaráin (GA111-002001-). This limestone cross-slab (visible H 0.49m; max. Wth 0.43m; shaft Wth 0.33m; T 0.1m), with bosses near the upper ends of both sides, bears a simple single-line Latin cross with forked terminals on the arms and head. A drawing by Higgins (1987, vol. 2, 305, no. 32) indicates that terminal at the base, which is obscured by soil cover, is heart or spike shaped. (Crawford 1913, 155(e)) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 February 2015 This monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 43.

Date likely to the early Christian period (6th–10th centuries AD), given its form as a cross-slab. It may have marked a burial or served as a memorial within a sacred or ritual landscape associated with an early Christian cemetery.

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