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Cross-slab in Killamery

Cross-slab

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Killamery graveyard once held a small rough cross-slab bearing a prayer for Tuathal beneath a thin Latin cross. The stone has vanished, leaving behind a name and the shape of a request rather than a visible marker.
A cross-slab (0.38m x 0.22m) originally located in Killamery graveyard (KK030-008010-) but not currently visible. The stone bore an Irish inscription ‘Ór ar Thuathal’ (A prayer for Tuathal) under an incised single-line Latin cross (L c. 0.12m) with enlarged ends. Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 315) described the stone as a very small freestone flag, thin and rough. (Crawford 1913, 261; Manning 1982, 378-9) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 July 2013
Probably dating to the early medieval period, this cross-slab likely served as a memorial or devotional object, with the inscription indicating a Christian prayer associated with the figure Tuathal, possibly a local saint or notable individual.

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