What is recorded here

Five metres southeast of Templecronan Church, two leaning slabs and triangular endstones enclose a rectangular chamber barely large enough for a seated person. The structure predates the twelfth-century church and may have held the exhumed relics of a notable ecclesiastic, perhaps St. Cronan himself. Its broken southern slab and uneven ends suggest age, reuse, or deliberate transformation rather than careless neglect.

Situated in a graveyard (CL010-021003-) 5m SE of Templecronan Church (CL010-021002-). A gabled shrine, sometimes referred to as St. Cronan's grave, comprising two large slabs leaning inwards (N slab: L 1.69m; Wth 1.39m; T 0.05m; S slab: L 1.7m; Wth 1.43m; T 0.05m) enclosing a rectangular internal area of 1.3m by 0.92m. The S slab is broken at the top. Triangular slabs form the E and W ends. The W endstone (Wth 1.33m at base; 0.36m at top; H 1.52m) is slightly higher that the E endstone which is broken at the top. A second slab shrine (CL010-021011-) lies immediately outside the graveyard to the E. Shrines of this nature are ‘generally dated to the 7th century’ (Sheehan 1982, 40) and were probably designed to house the exhumed corporeal relics of notable ecclesiastics. These shrines are therefore likely to be much older than the church which is of 12th century date. The following photographs are uploaded: CL010-021010-_01.jpg Gabled shrine from SE with Temple Cronan (CL010-021002-) in the background. CL010-021010-_02.jpg Gabled shrine from SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 October 2016

A gabled shrine at Termon, possibly built in the early medieval period, is associated with St. Cronan and is situated near Templecronan Church; it is significant as a potential ecclesiastical monument linked to an early Christian saint.

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