What is recorded here

Monasterboice in County Louth, Ireland, holds three cross-slabs, including a greenish fragment bearing a weathered Latin cross beside the N church. The stone is small enough to touch and old enough to have lost most of its edges, yet it still points upward through rain and time. Perhaps a monk cut that cross for a grave, a gate or a warning, then left it to teach patience.

A fragment of a greenish slab (max. L 0.55m; max. Wth 0.45m) bearing part of a very weathered incised Latin cross. It is erected against the exterior of the S wall of the N church (LH021-062003-). This is one of three cross-slabs at Monasterboice (see also: LH021-062013-; LH021-062014-). Compiled by: Claire Breen Date of upload: 20 July 2012

A Christian cross-slab, likely dating to the early medieval period (6th–10th century), associated with the monastic site of Monasterboice. Such stones often marked sacred spaces or commemorated individuals, reflecting the spread of Christianity in early Ireland.

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