Cross-slab

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated at the crest of an E-facing slope within a trivallate enclosure (see WA027-003010-) which has been suggested as 'the site of an early church' (Power 1952, 215). In the course of excavations undertaken on the site in 1940 M.J. Bowman unearthed ‘a small irregularly shaped flagstone bearing an incised cross of Greek type, about six inches in length and rudely cut and lengthened by a later hand into a Latin cross.’ (Power 1941, 63-4). Bowman suggested that ‘this cross-inscribed stone may have been removed from its original position; its presence, however, on a site which resemebled a grave, suggests a burial.’ (Curtin 2015, 93). The present location of this possible cross-slab is unknown: its last know provenance is recorded by Bowman in 1941 as at 'Canon Power's house' (Curtin 2015, 137). (Power 1941; 1952; Moore 1999, 165-6; Curtin 2015)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Updated by: Paul Walsh

Revised date of upload: 21 December 2015

References

Power, P. 1952 The placenames of the Decies (second ed.). Cork University Press.

Moore, M. 1999 Archaeological inventory of county Waterford. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Power, P. 1941 Ballygarran Cill, near Waterford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 71, 63-4.

Curtin, J. 2015 A reassessment of Michael J. Bowman's excavation of Killeenagh Burial Ground, Ballygarran, Co. Waterford, 1940. M.A. Thesis, University College Cork. National Monuments Service Archive.