What is recorded here

Killannin holds a limestone slab where an 18th-century grave inscription covers an older ringed cross. The cross may belong to the early Christian or early medieval period, while the straightened edges and new writing suggest the stone was reused rather than made whole. Beneath a later name, the older mark still protrudes, keeping two ages of mourning inside one grave.

Within the graveyard (GA068-024001-) surrounding St Annin’s Church (GA068-024----). Recorded by Higgins (1987, ii, 376, no. 96), this large subrectangular slab of limestone with a curved or bow-shaped head bears an 18th-century inscription that overlies a two-line ringed cross with wedge-shaped terminals at the head and arms. The cross form appears to be early Christian or early medieval in date and the slab appears to have been recut when the sides were straightened and trimmed to shape the later gravestone. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 29 May 2018

An 18th-century cross-slab, likely repurposed from an earlier Christian monument, marking a grave or commemorative site within a long-standing ecclesiastical landscape. Such stones often reflect continuity between prehistoric and medieval religious practices.

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