What is recorded here

Graveslab in Straboe is a tapering granite slab now set into the wall of Templeboy Church, bearing a double-ended cross carved in relief. The upper cross has wide rounded terminals, while the lower end finishes in a smaller Latin cross, giving the stone the appearance of pointing at once upward and downward. It is the kind of marker that suggests a burial, a boundary, or a warning, though no name remains to explain whose life it recorded.

National Monument No. 452. Tapering granite grave-slab (L 1.8m; Wth 0.5m tapering to 0.25m; T 0.23m) now affixed to wall of Templeboy Church (CW003-017001-). Double-ended cross in relief. Upper end, cross with large rounded expanded terminals (Wth c. 0.38m) and at the base of the shaft (0.07m) it terminates in small Latin cross (Wth 0.21m). (Kilfeather, no. 619; Corlett 2003, 86-110) Date of revision: 7 September 2009 Revised by: Jean Farrelly

Early Christian gravestone, 8th–10th century. Its double-ended cross and relief carving reflect Insular artistic traditions and the spread of Christianity in early medieval Ireland.

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