Graveslab in St. Patricksrock

Lying in the choir of the cathedral (TS061-025003-) on the Rock of Cashel. The upper portion of a rectangular slab (L 0.87m; Wth 0.82m) which has a crack on the dexter side (Maher 1997, 73). It is decorated with a seven-armed segmental fleur-de-lis cross, carved in relief (ibid.) with a knop at the base of the cross-head surmounting the cross-shaft. A latin inscription, in Black Letter script, runs along the dexter and sinister side of the slab, though all that survives is: HIC JACET / ..AIT (ibid.). This slab appears to be that described by FitzGerald (1901-03, vol. 5, 442) as the 'upper half of an eight-armed cross slab, the inscription on which is too weather-worn to be legible'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 January 2012

Graveslab in St. Patrick's Rock is a medieval Christian funerary monument, likely 12th to 14th century in date, and significant as an example of early Irish stone carving associated with the ecclesiastical site of the Rock of Cashel.