What is recorded here

Graveslab in Strade is a small, tapered stone lid from the thirteenth century, likely covering a child’s coffin beneath the Dominican friary. Its worn surface still holds a long cross with tiny spirals at the ends, marking death with a gesture of life rather than fear. The slab rests against the chancel wall, waiting for someone to notice that even the smallest grave received careful love.

Located in Strade Dominican friary (MA070-067001-), one of a group of five (see also MA070-067004-; MA070-067007-; MA070-067008-; MA070-067010-) on displayed against the S wall of the chancel. This intact, tapered graveslab, possibly thirteenth-century in date, was the lid of a coffin-tomb. It is small in size (L 1.19m; max. Wth 0.39m) and may have been covered the tomb of a child. The surface of the slab is worn, but the outline of a long cross carved in low relief extending almost the full length of the slab is visible. A short cross bar, just above the base of the shaft, has a small spiral at each terminal. The design of the upper portion of the cross is now unclear. An additional arm, extending upwards at an angle off the cross-shaft, is visible on the right-hand side of the slab; a similar design is visible on two of the other grave-slabs (MA070-067004-; MA070-067010-). Attached image: SL070-067009-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020

Medieval Christian graveslab, 13th–15th century. Part of a group associated with the Dominican friary, significant as a rare surviving funerary monument from the medieval monastic period in Ireland.

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