Cross-slab, Skull, Co. Cork
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Crosses & Monuments
On the Mizen Peninsula in west Cork, in the townland of Skull (more commonly rendered today as Schull), there survives a cross-slab, one of those quietly arresting early medieval stones that mark the longer continuity of Christian practice in Ireland long before the age of carved high crosses or dressed church masonry.
A cross-slab is typically a flat or roughly shaped stone into which a cross has been incised rather than carved in relief, often associated with early monastic sites, burial grounds, or places of local veneration. They can be easy to overlook, especially when weathered down to a faint groove, and that understatedness is part of what makes them interesting.
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