What is recorded here

Graveslab in Tullaroan stands upright in the east wall of the Grace chapel, bearing a faded Lombardic prayer for David Fitz Huue. Its tapering stone rises nearly two metres, decorated with a four-armed cross whose ends finish in fleur-de-lis shapes. The chamber has held that name and warning since the thirteenth or fourteenth century, turning an ordinary burial into a marker still visible beside the altar.

Placed in a upright position, fixed to the E wall of the Grace chapel at Tullaroan medieval church (KK018-032001-). This tapering slab (L 1.96m; Wth at top 0.57m; Wth at base 0..3m; T 0.14m) decorated with a four-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals, in raised relief, with central lozenge. The shaft has a fleur-de-lis terminal with a knop directly above it. The inscription on the upper surface of the slab, though very faded, appears to be in Lombardic script and runs parallel to the shaft on the dexter face. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 494) gives the inscription as: DAV : FIS : HVVE : GIT : ICI : DEV : DE : SA : [A]LME : EIT : MERCI and the translation as: David Fitz Huue lies here. God on his soul have mercy. Around the edge of the surface of the slab there is a raised border and the upper portion of the sides are chamfered (Wth 0.075m). The slab dates from the 13th/14th century. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 28 February 2017

Christian graveslab, medieval period, significant for its four-armed cross carving, reflecting early Christian artistic traditions in Ireland.

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