What is recorded here

Kilkishen still holds a broken limestone cross in a roadside wall, its uneven arms and single-line wheel marking an unfinished burial from the 17th century. The stone may have stood elsewhere before becoming a wall fragment, carrying the lives and losses of a place no longer certain about its own beginnings.

In a wall on the N side of the road in the centre of Kilkishen. The head (H 0.43m; Wth 0.37m) of a probably once larger limestone graveslab set into a low modern drystone wall on the roadside and reported to the National Monuments Service by Jim Neville. This is a plain wheeled Latin cross-head, roughly carved on the left and incised to the right of the main shaft giving the impression that it was unfinished. It is very roughly executed. Although the shaft and arms are generally of equal thickness (0.1m) the right arm is slightly wider than the left (0.11m). The wheel is a single line. The provenance of the slab is unknown but it may date to the 17th century. The following image has been uploaded: CL043-125----_01.jpg View of graveslab in modern wall. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 7 May 2019

A fragment of a medieval Christian graveslab, likely 12th to 16th century, indicating early Christian burial practices in the region; its reuse in a modern wall is common in rural Ireland.

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