What is recorded here

Cross-slab stands forty centimetres tall, broken at both ends, and holds a curved notch that hints it once formed a cross before rubble swallowed its shape on High Island. It is not decoration but restraint: a small stone that refused to disappear completely. Even in a depot jar or shadowed tray, the notch keeps asking be shown the whole form.

Recorded by Fisher (2014, 220, no. 47, Fig. 7.8), this cross-slab (H 0.4m; Wth 0.24m; T 0.05m) of garnet mica-schist was found in the rubble in the vicinity of the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island. It is broken at both ends and is undecorated. A curved notch along one edge suggests that it may have been cruciform in shape. It is now in the care of the OPW (Athenry depot, Co. Galway, see GA084-151026-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 November 2015

This cross-slab likely dates to the early medieval period, associated with Christian symbolism and possibly used as a memorial or waymarker. Its discovery near a church suggests a liturgical or funerary context.

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