Graveslab, Rathlogan, Co. Kilkenny

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Graveslab, Rathlogan, Co. Kilkenny

At a small ecclesiastical site in Rathlogan, County Kilkenny, a medieval graveslab has effectively ceased to exist, at least in any form that can be seen or touched.

It was recorded, it was noted, and now there is nothing to find.

Writing between 1874 and 1879, a scholar named Moore documented the site and observed that a fragment of a medieval tomb was present there, alongside a church and graveyard where, as he put it, "some few are still buried." A graveslab, in this context, would typically be a carved stone slab laid over a burial, often bearing an incised cross, lettering, or decorative knotwork, and common across medieval Irish ecclesiastical sites. Whatever the Rathlogan example once looked like, its details are now lost. No visible trace of it remains. It may have been broken up, buried under shifting ground, removed, or simply worn away entirely in the century and a half since Moore passed through and took note.

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