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Kilbixy or Ceall Bhigsighe was founded by St Bigseach who was connected to St. Brigid of Kildare (Ó Riain 2011, 106). Early Christian cross-inscribed stone consisting of an incomplete sandstone slab (H 0.78m x Wth 0.45m x T 0.09m) decorated with an incised or pocked marked triple line cross with triangular-shaped terminals framing broad interlaced ribbons. The lower terminal of the cross is missing as this part of the slab is broken. Cross-inscribed slab found by local parishioner in Kilbixy graveyard (WM011-04005-) and now mounted onto the internal face of the S wall located off centre to E inside the C of I church at Kilbixy. This type of expansional cross with ribbon interlaced terminals may date from the 10th/11th century based on comparisons with comparable slabs bearing inscriptions (Lionard 1960-1, 131-6).
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Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 22 June 2018
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