What is recorded here

Two slab shrines flank Templecronan Church, their gabled frames leaning inward like exhausted sentinels. Built in the seventh century to hold exhumed relics, they predate the twelfth-century church by centuries. The stones still mark a boundary between living memory and buried fate.

Situated immediately outside the NE wall of the graveyard (CL010-021003-) around Templecronan Church (CL010-021002-). A gabled shrine, with two large slabs leaning inwards (L 1.45m WNW-ESE; Wth 1.05m; max. H 0.9m) open at the top, with a slab forming each gable end. A second slab shrine (CL010-021010-) is in the graveyard 5m SE of the Church. 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 photograph is uploaded: CL010-021011-_01.jpg Shrine from S. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 October 2016

A gabled shrine at Termon, likely built in the early medieval period, is associated with Templecronan Church and may be dedicated to a local saint; its architectural style reflects early Christian traditions in Ireland.

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